Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AUTUMN WINDS, by JANET HAMILTON Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn gales are blowing Last Line: I'd breathe my life away. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Autumn; Life; Nature; Seasons; Wind; Fall | ||||||||
THE Autumn gales are blowing And wrecks bestrew the shore; The angry ocean rages With loud and wild uproar. Furious billows leeward The doomèd vessels bore; Their prey the foaming breakers To fragments madly tore. The Autumn winds are singing The death-song of the leaves; Shrill piping, as they winnow The shocks of golden sheaves. Soft singing to the reaper, Who loves to hear the song, And bares his dewy forehead, As they singing skim along. The Autumn breeze is hushing To sleep the fading flowers; Breathing on the falling leaves And through the rifled bowers; Murmuring through the woodlands, And sighing in the pines; Light rippling on the streamlet In broken, wavy lines. On a couch of fallen leaves The golden and the brown While the breezes fan my brow, There I would lay me down. Alone with God and nature, 'Midst emblems of decay; 'Neath the calm Autumnal sky I'd breathe my life away. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OUR AUTUMN by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN AN AUTUMN JOY by GEORGE ARNOLD A LEAF FALLS by MARION LOUISE BLISS THE FARMER'S BOY: AUTUMN by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD A LETTER IN OCTOBER by TED KOOSER AUTUMN EVENING by DAVID LEHMAN EVERYTHING THAT ACTS IS ACTUAL by DENISE LEVERTOV A BALLAD FOUNDED ON A REAL INCIDENT WHICH OCCURED IN HIGH LIFE by JANET HAMILTON |
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