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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CORYMBUS FOR AUTUMN, by FRANCIS THOMPSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hearken my chant, 'tis
Last Line: The fiery-fruited vineyard of this night.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


A COUNTRY PATHWAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I come upon it suddenly, alone
Last Line: That wanders home to-day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Autumn; Country Life; Nature; Roads; Seasons; Fall; Paths; Trails


A CYCLE, by MILICENT WASHBURN SHINN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Spring-time -- is it spring-time?
Last Line: Thou my life, my best beloved, all my spring-time comes with thee.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Solitude; Spring; Fall; Loneliness


A DREAM OF AUTUMN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mellow hazes, lowly trailing
Last Line: Down the silence solemnly.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Autumn; Dreams; Grief; Harvest; Seasons; Fall; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


A DREAM OF WINTER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: These flowers survive their lover bees
Last Line: The fire that's on his own warm breast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Autumn; Robins; Seasons; Winter; Fall


A LEAF FALLS, by MARION LOUISE BLISS    Poem Text                    
First Line: So tells an autumn leaf
Subject(s): Leaves; Autumn; Fall


A LETTER IN OCTOBER, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn comes later and later now
Subject(s): Autumn; Time; Fall


A LILT IN FALL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The brown of her eyes in the oaken leaf
Last Line: Oh, all the world shall sing of her!
Subject(s): Autumn; New York City - Dutch Period; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Fall; Songs


A LYRIC CALENDAR, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Black-winged robbers of the north
Last Line: All day long in the sere oak wood.
Subject(s): Autumn; Calendars; Life; Seasons; Spring; Summer; Winter; Fall


A LYRIC OF AUTUMN, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is music in the meadows, in the air
Last Line: Wings the nocturne nature plays upon her lyre.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


A NOVEMBER DAISY, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Afterthought of summer's bloom!
Last Line: Blooming late and all alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Autumn; November; Seasons; Fall


A NOVEMBER ROSE, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You came to see me yesterday
Last Line: The brown earth covers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


A PRIVATE FALL, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mots of haydust rise and fall
Last Line: And we tell no one
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Fall


A RAMBLER'S REVERIE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: We wander up a golden lane
Last Line: For back none ever strays.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Thought; Time; Fall; Thinking


A REMEMBRANCE OF AUTUMN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing stirs the sunny silence
Last Line: Flee with them away!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Fall


A ROMANCE, by EUGENE FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A calm, delightful autumn night
Last Line: A wild, delirious autumn night!
Subject(s): Animals; Autumn; Dogs; Love; Moon; Night; Seasons; Fall; Bedtime


A RUBRIC, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The aster puts its purple on
Last Line: And winter spreads the pall.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


A SONG IN AUTUMN, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Autumn, autumn, give me of your crimson
Last Line: Your gold and crimson bearing, against a grief too long.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


A SONG OF AUTUMN, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My wind is turned to bitter north
Last Line: Returns no more, no more
Variant Title(s): No More
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


A STILL DAY IN AUTUMN, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love to wander through the woodlands hoary
Last Line: Shows its bright wings and softly glides away.
Variant Title(s): October
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Fall


A SWIMMER'S DREAM, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn is dim on the dark soft water
Last Line: And here to south of them swells the sea.
Subject(s): Autumn; Dawn; Dreams; Seasons; Swimming & Swimmers; Water; Fall; Sunrise; Nightmares; Swimmers


A VAGABOND SONG, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood
Last Line: She calls and calls each vagabond by name.
Variant Title(s): An Autumn Song
Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons; Wandering & Wanderers; Fall; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


A WEDDING SONNET, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sad autumn, drop thy weedy crown forlorn
Last Line: And breathes round him the spring-time of his song!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Seasons; Spring; Wedding Song; Fall; Epithalamium


A WHIMSY, by EDNA W. PIKERINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the fall when woods resound
Last Line: And hear its new-born cry.
Subject(s): Autumn; Native Americans; Seasons; Spring; Fall; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


ABOUT THE FAIRIES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pray, where are the little bluebells gone
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


ABSENTIA ANIMI, by GUNNAR EKELOF    Poem Source                    
First Line: In autumn %in autumn of your leave-taking
Last Line: In autumn
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


ACROSS THE AUTUMN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: White smoke twists into the sky in the distance
Last Line: Out of the shadows that have been waiting
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AFTER THE VINTAGE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How can my vineyard's charm be told
Last Line: Save pyramids of snow.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Vines And Vineyards; Fall


AFTER TU FU (THEY SAY YOU'RE STAYING IN A MOUNTAIN TEMPLE), by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the damp evenings of summertime
Last Line: On the other side of the clouds
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Summer; Winter; Fall


ALATUS, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Their supply lines cut
Last Line: Toward the hid pulse of things, its / winged skeleton
Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Autumn; Theology


ALL HALLOW'S EVE, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brian: tearfully sinks the pallid sun
Last Line: While the sun gives light, and the red blood burn.
Subject(s): All Souls' Night; Autumn; Fairies; Rites & Ceremonies; Seasons; All Hallows Night; Fall; Elves


ALL SAINTS' DAY, by MARY MAKOFSKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wind from the west and days of rain
Last Line: Light wine served to cleanse %the palate after a feast
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


ALL SOULS, by SHEROD SANTOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forgive me, mother, it's october again
Subject(s): Autumn; Time; Fa,ily Life; Life, Modern; Fall


ALMS IN AUTUMN, by ROSE FYLEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spindle-wood, spindle-wood, will you lend me, pray
Last Line: They'll set the realms of fairyland all dancing with delight.
Subject(s): Autumn; Fairies; Seasons; Fall; Elves


ALONG THE OHIO - NOVEMBER, by MARY PRUDENCE MORTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let there be wind over this place forever
Last Line: The last horseman, reining in his steed.
Subject(s): Autumn; Ohio River; Seasons; Fall


AN AUTUMN BREEZE; QUATRAIN, by WILLIAM HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This gentle and half melancholy breeze
Last Line: To voice some subtlety of sylvan grief.
Subject(s): Autumn; Mysticism; Seasons; Fall


AN AUTUMN CAROL, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, our hearts are aglow with contentment
Last Line: For there 's heat in the steam-pipes to-day!
Subject(s): Autumn; Cold; Heat; Landlords & Tenants; Seasons; Fall


AN AUTUMN CHANGE, FR. THE HAPPY HARVESTERS, by CHARLES SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, dreamy autumn days
Last Line: Through all the land of smiles.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AN AUTUMN DAY, by DAISIE LE REU S. CAPP    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out of the infinite unknown plan
Last Line: Beautiful autumn day!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AN AUTUMN DAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a jewel, golden-rimmed
Last Line: Dreams its happy life away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Fall


AN AUTUMN HOLIDAY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't want to think about the meaning
Last Line: Only rest in the golden air!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AN AUTUMN IDYLL, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, where the beech-nuts drop among the grasses
Last Line: Peace to you both. The pipe I shall retain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AN AUTUMN JOY, by GEORGE ARNOLD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a fair autumnal day
Subject(s): Autumn; Fall


AN AUTUMN LEAF, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A nursling of the under-green
Last Line: Of sap receded, and I fell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AN AUTUMN MOOD, by GRACE CAROLINE SISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Chill autumn announces the death of the summer
Last Line: And mournfully sing their sad song to the glen.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AN AUTUMN MORNING, by TERESA LARKIN CARROLL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I stepped without my doorway
Last Line: Of wondrous opulence.
Subject(s): Autumn; Beauty; Seasons; Fall


AN AUTUMN NIGHT, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Autumn night, in moonlight lying
Last Line: Peace to me for aye restore?
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AN AUTUMN PSALM FOR 1860, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No shadow o'er the silver sea
Last Line: Bringing in his sheaves.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AN AUTUMN SONNET, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These little presents of your tenderness
Last Line: "my head upon your lap and call you ""dear."
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AN AUTUMN TRINKET, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why does she burn
Last Line: Fade from our eyes, and perish, perish, perish!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AN AUTUMN VISION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it midsummer here in the heavens that
Last Line: The limitless lightnings of vision and passion, the measureless music of love.
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Storms; Vision; Fall


AN AUTUMN WALK WITH DEBORAH, by ALINE MURRAY KILMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the limp and yellow grasses
Last Line: As I carry you home in the fading light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce, Mrs.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AN AUTUMNAL EVENING, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep black against the dying glow
Last Line: Great dusky moths go flitting by.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Autumn; Elm Trees; Evening; Seasons; Fall; Sunset; Twilight


AN AUTUMNAL EXTRAVAGANZA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With a sweeter voice than birds
Last Line: On its highest minaret.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Music & Musicians; Roses; Seasons; Fall


AN AUTUMNAL THOUGHT, 1795, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis past! We breathe! Assuaged at length
Last Line: The curtain drops, life's day is o'er.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Autumn; Fall


AN AUTUMNAL TONIC, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What mystery is it? The morning
Last Line: With the hale harvest-hands of the past.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Autumn; Indian Summer; Nature; Seasons; Fall


ANDANTE FOR AUTUMN, by HERMAN SALINGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Evening was brown and misty / the window
Last Line: Marched untriumphant past.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Wind; Fall


ANOTHER FALL, by KEVIN DURKIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Higgledy-piggledy %william the conqueror
Last Line: Counterproductively %way oversold
Subject(s): Autumn; Business; Seasons


ANOTHER RELUCTANCE, by ANNIE FINCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chestnuts fell in the charred season,
Subject(s): Home; Chestnuts; Autumn; Fall


ANOTHER SEASON, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fall work almost done
Last Line: Where someone was sharpening the knives
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Summer; Fall


ANSWERING LU YE, by LIANG YI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I heard wind and waterfall
Last Line: Those objects hanging from the eaves, %just autumn clouds
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Zen Buddhism


ANT AN ENGINEER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The pastry was delicious, and I wanted it myseld
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


APOLOGY, by CAROL FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Already the land is starting to forget gardens
Variant Title(s): Autumn Apology
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


APOLOGY, by CAROL FROST    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Already the land is starting to forget gardens
Last Line: And is no longer availing and can neither take nor give away
Variant Title(s): Autumn Apolog
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AS IMPERCEPTIBLY AS GRIEF, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Into the beautiful
Subject(s): Autumn


AS SUMMER INTO AUTUMN SLIPS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of life's declivity
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1346; Poem: 134
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Summer; Time


ASPECTS OF AUTUMN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the wonder of their weaving lie the forests and the fields
Last Line: Yea, utterly forgotten, every one.
Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Hearts; Love; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Seasons; Tears; Fall; Woods


AT A HERITAGE, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A cool fall night
Last Line: Eggplants, cucumbers
Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AT MICHAELMAS, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: About the time of michael's feast
Last Line: Here's ragged-robin the field, %a simple vagrant
Subject(s): Autumn; Michael, The Archangel; Saints; Seasons


AT SUNSET, by MATTIE A. W. CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sunset glories are smiling down
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


AUTOMNE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, glad and free was love until the fall
Last Line: But autumn chilled him with the blossoms there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUM' TIME, by JEWELL BELL MCMURTREY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, dere ain' no time lak de autum'
Last Line: Nen set fo' de fiah an res'.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Weather; Fall


AUTUMN, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once again, o'er all the land
Last Line: Our souls will pass, to silence going.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis the golden gleam of an autumn day
Last Line: When the autumn of age shall come to me
Subject(s): Autumn;old Age;seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "I at my window sit, and see"
Last Line: "then, not despised, I'll not complain, / but cherish autumn in her stead"
Subject(s): Autumn;leaves;seasons;trees; Fall


AUTUMN, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell the softer hours, spring's opening blush
Last Line: Sudden, as through the grove the rustling breeze.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Autumn; Fall


AUTUMN, by JESSIE ALBERT BARNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: A dash of color, an azure sky
Last Line: May it be to joy, and never to weep.
Subject(s): Autumn; Colors; Harvest; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Autumn, like atalanta, fleetly flees
Last Line: And mocks with pagan laughter, sweetly shrill.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by WILLIAM ASPENWALL BRADLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now shorter grow november days
Last Line: That haunts this hungry autumn air.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, sit upon the lofty hill
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN, by JENNIE COPPOCK CAFFREY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fields laid bare, and haystacks high
Last Line: The sun shining through a faint haze.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by ADA CAMBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So still - so still! Only the endless sighing
Last Line: The germ of a new life that's life indeed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love to see, when leaves depart
Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love to see, when leaves depart
Last Line: The grape will redden on your fingers %through the lit crystal of the cup
Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shorter and shorter now the twilight clips
Last Line: And live with me the poetry of spring.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by CHISATO    Poem Text                    
First Line: A thousand thoughts of tender vague regret
Last Line: Not to me only speaks her silvery haze.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by DAISIE DELL CHURCHWARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The maple, standing long in green
Last Line: Before her stark array.
Subject(s): Autumn; Maple Trees; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Capricious little poem and sapling rhyme
Last Line: These listless leaves take warmer harmonies?
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; September; Fall


AUTUMN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Autumn grows old: he, like some simple one
Last Line: Whose secret day-dream phoebus burns to hear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: O days, when every flower was fair
Last Line: "through happy, golden summer hours."
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The morns are meeker than they were
Last Line: I'll put a trinket on.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by GEORGE ELLISTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: On a far hill
Last Line: For a last caress.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What did autumn murmur?
Last Line: Autumn's come!
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by JOHN GALSWORTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When every leaf has different hue
Last Line: Who would no winter know!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by OLIVE HANSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, summer has turned a sophisticate
Last Line: Veil, in respect to your morals.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The autumn skies are flushed with gold
Last Line: And tears of dew are on them all.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by THOMAS ERNEST HULME    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A touch of cold in the autumn night
Last Line: With white faces like town children.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hulme, T. E.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by VYACHESLAV IVANOVICH IVANOV    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The air is sad and still. A bright transparency!
Last Line: Down to the wintry regions soon to darkness fated.
Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Seasons; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness


AUTUMN, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Believe me - when I say
Last Line: Into a blinding sunlight!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now is the time of thinned and reddened leaves
Last Line: When autumn wanes in dark dismantled glades.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Autumn; Country Life; Leaves; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by KIM TONGMYONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your heart is a deserted sandbar
Last Line: O my lady! You are sad and beautiful %like a young widow
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN, by ALBERT LAIGHTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The world puts on its robes of glory now
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


AUTUMN, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The air deals blows: surely too hard, too often?
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The air deals blows: surely too hard, too often?
Last Line: And the case of butterflies so rich it looks %as if all summer settled there and died
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sad nights are here and the sad mornings
Last Line: "a tiny sorrow, shrilling ""where? Ah! Where?"
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now leafy winds are blowing cold
Last Line: Upon another heart in tune.
Subject(s): Autumn; Beauty; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With what a glory comes and goes the year!
Last Line: To his long resting-place without a tear.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A child's hand is dissolving
Last Line: And black leaves %in the gale winds
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Autumn; Childhood Memories; Seasons


AUTUMN, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You take your summer, you take your spring
Last Line: Just about medium, just about right!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by ELEANOR MCGUIRE    Poem Source                    
First Line: God, %whatever made you
Last Line: Of even more beautiful things %to come?
Subject(s): Autumn; God; Seasons


AUTUMN, by NELLIE H. MOORE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The air now bears a frosty chill
Last Line: And god is turning o'er a page.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by ROSA MULHOLLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under a purple cloud along the west
Last Line: Sleep unafraid, for ye shall live again.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, Lady
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is autumn: it -- yet will break your heart!
Last Line: Fly away! Fly away!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I want to mention
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Fall; Dead, The


AUTUMN, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The russet field, the leafless tree, / the wood so still and lone
Last Line: And falls the eddying snow.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by ALEXANDER L. POSEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the dreamy silence / of the afternoon, a
Last Line: Rest -- and it is autumn.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by A. W. RANSOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Along the grass strange shadows play
Last Line: While god the nearer seems.
Subject(s): Autumn; God; Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The children have colds and snore
Last Line: From the plane trees through the dark
Subject(s): Autumn; Provence, France


AUTUMN, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The children have colds and snore
Last Line: From the plane trees through the dark
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As a harvester, at dusk
Last Line: These delights for festival.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Autumn; Festivals; Harvest; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Fall; Fairs; Pageants


AUTUMN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The autumn leaves are falling
Last Line: Carefully in his hand %everything falling forever
Variant Title(s): Herbs
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: October's bellowing anger breaks and cleaves
Last Line: The burden of your wrongs is on my head.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Fall; First World War


AUTUMN, by SIMON SERFOZO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Autumn is plucking the leaves
Last Line: Plucking the leaves
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons


AUTUMN, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Has it come, the time to fade?
Last Line: "the autumn of thy days."
Subject(s): Aging; Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by JESSE SILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: In token of his bounteous grace
Last Line: Youth will not come to thy beck and call.
Subject(s): Autumn; Decay; Leaves; Seasons; Wind; Fall; Rot; Decadence


AUTUMN, by WILL H. SKALING    Poem Text                    
First Line: On distant hills, maples glow
Last Line: Wild geese flying by.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Weather; Wind; Fall


AUTUMN, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The color of stone when leaves are yellow
Subject(s): Autumn, Time; Squirrels


AUTUMN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay william, nay, not so; the changeful year
Last Line: God, always, everywhere, and all in all.
Subject(s): Autumn; Comfort; Death; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Presence; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The


AUTUMN, by CHARLES G. STATER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sunflowers stand
Last Line: Climbs a violet mist.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by MARJORIE STELMACH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Soon again the dead will outnumber
Last Line: Benediction suspended above us all summer?
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Dreams; Seasons


AUTUMN, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It may be on a quiet mountain-top
Last Line: And sing no more to you.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long lines of coral light
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long lines of coral light
Last Line: In the calm above
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now at the aged year's decline
Last Line: The sacrament of bread and wine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by CYNTHIA TAGGART    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now autumn tints the scene
Last Line: Kiss the low ground, and flutter, shrink, and die.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The softest shadows mantle o'er his form
Last Line: Far down the vista of the fading year.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou burden of all songs the earth hath sung
Last Line: And soul of all regret!
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Autumn is always too early.
Subject(s): Autumn; Fall


AUTUMN (1), by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer is gone and all the merry noise
Last Line: Dreams autumn's melancholy life away.
Subject(s): Autumn; Labor & Laborers; Seasons; Fall; Work; Workers


AUTUMN (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Care flieth / hope and fear together
Last Line: In blank autumn who could speak of love?
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Autumn; Fear; Hope; Love; Seasons; Fall; Optimism


AUTUMN (1), by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun shines bright, but sadly
Last Line: By a palling of the mind.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN (2), by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The thistledown's flying, though the winds are all still
Last Line: Whoever looks round sees eternity there.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN (2), by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All day I have watched the purple vine leaves
Subject(s): Autumn; Fall


AUTUMN (2), by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: List to the sad wind, drearily moaning
Last Line: Who'd have believe such a fate was impending.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN (DOUBLE OAK MOUNTAIN - ALABAMA), by IDA DREAM SCHWARTZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hushed and old
Last Line: Of stiff white birch stirring like ghost.
Subject(s): Autumn; Mountains; Seasons; Fall; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


AUTUMN ALCHEMY, by LUNA CRAVEN OSBURN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I will take me out to the autumn woods
Last Line: Midst the blessed peace of trees.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN ALONG THE BEACHES, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A year with all its days, has come and gone
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN AND DEATH, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They are coy, these sisters, autumn and death
Subject(s): Autumn; Religion; Seasons; Fall; Theology


AUTUMN AND DEATH, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They are coy, these sisters, autumn and death
Subject(s): Autumn; Religion; Seasons


AUTUMN AND SPRING, by JULIA COOLEY ALTROCCHI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Autumn is sister to the spring
Last Line: Across the span of a white hour.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Spring; Fall


AUTUMN AND ST. FRANCIS (AFTER VIEW ZEFFERELLI'S 'BROTHER SUN'), by LEN BLANCHARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The autumn never seemed so sad
Last Line: Of the years provides a path to restoration
Subject(s): Autumn; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Saints; Seasons


AUTUMN AT TAOS, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the rounded sides of the rockies, the aspens of autumn
Last Line: Are nerveless just now %so be easy
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN AUGURY, by LOTTIE HENDERSON CARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Portent hangs low in blue september skies
Last Line: To peace and silence by this vivid change!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN BEAUTIES, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From stubble field, woodland and meadow
Last Line: Nothing could lovelier be.
Subject(s): Autumn; Beauty; Nature; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN BEGINS IN MARTINS FERRY, OHIO, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the shreve high football stadium
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Autumn; Education; Football; Industry; Labor & Laborers; High Schools; Fall; Work; Workers


AUTUMN BEGINS IN MARTINS FERRY, OHIO, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the shreve high football stadium
Last Line: And gallop terribly against each other's bodies
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Autumn; Education; Football; Industry; Labor And Laborers; Schools; Seasons; Sports


AUTUMN BIRDS, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wild duck startles like a sudden thought
Last Line: While small birds nestle in the hedge below.
Subject(s): Autumn; Birds; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN CARES: 2, by MENG CHIAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The autumn's moon complexion is ice
Last Line: A beech tree looming and bare, %sound and echo like sad notes plucked
Subject(s): Autumn; Beech Trees; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Seasons; Trees


AUTUMN CHANT, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the autumn shudders
Last Line: Beauty never slumbers; %all is in her name; %but the rose remembers %the dust from which it came
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN COLORS (1), by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The chestnut trees turned yellow
Last Line: Like ruddy old port wine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN COLORS (2), by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How tedious it seems, and strange
Last Line: From chlorophyll to xanthophyll.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Autumn; Colors; Poetry & Poets; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN COMES, by LI HO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wind in the plane tree startles the heart: a grown man's grief.
Last Line: And his spiteful blood, buried a thousand years, is now %green jade
Subject(s): Autumn; Poetry And Poets; Seasons


AUTUMN COMMUNION, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This autumn afternoon
Last Line: In leaf and cloud unfurled.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN COVERS ALL THE WORLD, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: They are more thrifty than I am
Subject(s): Autumn; China; Seasons


AUTUMN CRICKET, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the warm hush of the autumnal night
Subject(s): Autumn; Crickets; Seasons


AUTUMN DANCE, by WILLIAM HAROLD MCCREARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now out of heat and thunder
Last Line: The burnished wing, how brief!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN DAWNING, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A long roadway %between gray cliff sides
Last Line: Between his nimble hounds, a hunter is walking
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Autumn; Home; Jungles; Nature; Seasons


AUTUMN DAY, VILLAGE LIFE: RHYMING AFTER MY FATHER'S POEM, by YE WANWAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Floating life is nothing but a dream
Last Line: Autumn leads waters to the five lakes
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN DAYBREAK, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold wind of autumn, blowing loud
Last Line: Through the stripped maple I shall see, %bleak and remembered, patched with red, %the hill all summe
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN DAYS, by FRANZ EMANUEL GEIBEL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunny days of the autumn
Last Line: The poet alone can tell.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN DAYS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the cup of our life to-day
Last Line: Thank him from strand to strand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Autumn; God; Gratitude; Harvest; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN DAYS; QUATRAIN, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Autumn days no solace bring
Last Line: Come youth's april pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN DIALOGUE, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No, no', she cries, 'I will not warm my fingers'
Last Line: And earth continues to fondle its acre of dust.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN DUSK, AND IN THE GRASS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Drain off the light
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Autumn; Insects; Nature; Seasons; Spiders


AUTUMN EVEN-SONG, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The long cloud edged with streaming grey
Last Line: For me yon valley-cottage beckons warm.
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN EVENING, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cold light dies, the candles glow
Last Line: But in the shadows, lo! Your eyes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Autumn; Night; Seasons; Fall; Bedtime


AUTUMN EVENING, by DAVID LEHMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The yellow pears hang in the lake.
Subject(s): Autumn; Fall


AUTUMN EVENING, by FEODOR (FYODOR) IVANOVICH TYUTCHEV    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The light of autumn evenings seems a screen
Last Line: In noble reticence of sad surrender.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN EVENING, by FEODOR (FYODOR) IVANOVICH TYUTCHEV    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The light of autumn evenings fall serene
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN EVENING, by FEODOR (FYODOR) IVANOVICH TYUTCHEV    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the magnificence of autumn eves
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN FANCIES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The maple is a dainty maid
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN FANTASY, by JEAN PRITCHARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Autumn has bestowed her accolade
Last Line: Your whispered summons come.
Subject(s): Autumn; Blue Ridge Mountains; Fantasy; Nature; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN FEELINGS, by WANG FENGXIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Through closed pearl blinds the moonbeam penetrates
Last Line: Maple leaves lie as if drunken in the crimson forest
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN FIELDS, by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He said his legs were stiff and sore
Last Line: And the land where he had been
Subject(s): Autumn; Farm Life; Seasons


AUTUMN GARDEN, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My tent stands in a garden
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


AUTUMN GLORY, by EDITH EDWARDS WALDRON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where is there beauty such as this,' we ask
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN GOLD, by NELL H. ROYSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A gust of wind, and down they come
Last Line: Has changed to autumn gold.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN HAZE, by HARRY HARRISON KROLL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The autumn afternoon
Last Line: And I am lonely.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN HEALING, by JEAN WARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: When night comes on and the chills creep in
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN HOLIDAY ON MOUNT ROYAL, by AMY BISSETT ENGLAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Some gay leaf-carpets had been laid, where groups
Last Line: Her curtains down and tied them back with stars.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN IMPRESSION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A frost came overnight. Then all the day
Last Line: A haunt for spirits and a home for stars.
Subject(s): Autumn; Earth; Eyes; Frost; Leaves; Seasons; Stars; Fall; World


AUTUMN IMPRESSIONS, by CHA SHEN-HSING    Poem Source                    
First Line: A cricket chirrups near my bed
Last Line: A blind ancient follows a sightless youth
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN IN CARMEL, by GEORGE STERLING    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now with a sigh november comes to the brooding
Subject(s): Autumn; Carmel, California; Seasons


AUTUMN IN CONNECTICUT, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why does my heart leap with the fall
Last Line: Fresh leaves may yet take root
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Autumn; Connecticut; Leaves; Seasons


AUTUMN IN ENGLAND, by COLIN MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Autumn; England; Seasons; Soldiers; World War I


AUTUMN IN GAOL, by TSUBOI SHIGEJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: In autumn a friend
Last Line: Heavy as the world
Subject(s): Apples; Autumn; Fruit; Human Rights; Prisons And Prisoners; Seasons


AUTUMN IN MERAN, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The vintage time is gone, but not its glory
Last Line: In autumn wearest thou thy fairest crown.
Subject(s): Autumn; Past; Seasons; Vines And Vineyards; Fall


AUTUMN IN MY GARDEN, by MARION MACKENZIE    Poem Text                    
First Line: With autumn coming on I hastened home
Last Line: Dust, ashes, on the ground.
Subject(s): Autumn; Gardens & Gardening; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN IN THE GARDEN, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the frosty kiss of autumn in the dark
Last Line: Never walk alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Autumn; Regret; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN IN THE HIGHLANDS; AFTER KEATS, by JOHN CAMPBELL SHAIRP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: October misty bright, the touch is thine
Last Line: And crackling grouse-cock whirs on pinions strong.
Subject(s): Autumn; Scotland; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN IN THE WEALD, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, for here the lazy night
Last Line: Alone with the mist I linger on.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Seasons; Fall; Woods


AUTUMN IN THE WEST, by WILLIAM DAVIS GALLAGHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The autumn time is with us
Last Line: And golden-sphered persimmons spread o'er all.
Variant Title(s): The Autumn
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN LEAVES, by PEARL B. BLOSS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nature turned their somber green
Last Line: In other things which grow.
Subject(s): Autumn; Growth; Leaves; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN LEAVES, by CHARLES DICKENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Autumn leaves, autumn leaves
Last Line: Forgotten, changed, or dead.
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; Bereavement


AUTUMN LEAVES, by PIGE EARLY    Poem Text                    
First Line: A roll
Last Line: Asleep.
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN LEAVES, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The autumn leaves are turning fast
Last Line: The spirit doth reveal.
Subject(s): Autumn; Cold; Leaves; Seasons; Wind; Fall


AUTUMN LEAVES, by JANIE SCREVEN HEYWARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The dear old ladies whose cheeks are pink
Last Line: A little crumpled, but lovely still.
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN LEAVES, by MINNIE CASE HOPKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: About the chilly, ragged lawns they lie
Last Line: Could ask a fairer fate for them, or me?
Subject(s): Autumn; Religion; Seasons; Fall; Theology


AUTUMN LEAVES, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Children of the road, autumn leaves
Last Line: Lies sprawled beneath a tree %gaunt in his giving
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN LEAVES, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The autumn leaves are falling, and poets
Last Line: Kidlets on the floor, around me joy and laughter, and neighbors at the door.
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Nature; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN LEAVES, by BUREN A. MULLINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, the autumn leaves are falling
Last Line: "good-bye, old fellow."
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN LEAVES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come, little leaves,' said the wind one day
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


AUTUMN LOVE, by STUART MERRILL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The enchantress of thule
Last Line: On her island has ravished my soul
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN MARKET, by JEAN V. GIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: This market welcomes young and old
Last Line: Stored in the market of your mind!
Subject(s): Autumn; Markets; Seasons


AUTUMN MELODY, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the autumn days, the days of parting
Last Line: Would our shades could drink it, and be stilled
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN MESSAGES, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)    Poem Text                    
First Line: The flowers that as they fade fling parting kisses tender
Last Line: That I should care for thee!
Subject(s): Autumn; Farewell; Love - Nature Of; Seasons; Fall; Parting


AUTUMN MOOD, by DRUSA APPLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Low hanging clouds in sullen guise
Last Line: She hastens to the sea.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN MOOD, by SELETHA A. BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I shall store within my heart this fervor
Last Line: By which my soul defeats the winter's chill.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN MOVEMENT, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I cried over beautiful things knowing no beautiful thing lasts
Last Line: And the old things go, not one lasts.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN MUSING, by MARIE T. COPP    Poem Text                    
First Line: Strange poignancy of autumn haze
Last Line: Alternate stirs and stills.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN MYSTERY, by TESSA SWEAZY WEBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am intrigued with autumn's crimson call
Last Line: I glorify the autumn's loveliness.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN NIGHT, by DUAN SHUQING    Poem Source                    
First Line: The single cry of a goose after frost
Last Line: Layered clothes collect the tracks of tears
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN NIGHT, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The leaves are turning brown again
Last Line: The leaves are turning brown
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN NIGHT ON THE RIVER, by TS'AN LIAO TZU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rain obscures the green river
Last Line: The moonlight, there, in %floating shallow places bright
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Zen Buddhism


AUTUMN NOCTURNE, by DAVID MORTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen how low the rain is singing there
Last Line: Even this last-heard, drowsy sound of rain.
Subject(s): Autumn; Rain; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN OF LIFE, by MRS. S. W. RUSSELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: As leaves fall from trees
Last Line: To seek for the infinite.
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Life; Life Change Events; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN OF MANY YEARS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a ruddy light, in a craggy
Last Line: Summerhouse above the hazy river
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN ON THE PRAIRIE, by JEAN KAMPSCHROEDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a hush upon the prairie
Last Line: I am home this year.
Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Homecoming; Seasons; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness


AUTUMN ON THE UPPER THAMES, FR. THE GLITTERING PLAIN, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair is the world, now autumn's wearing
Last Line: And all is a tale for thee and me.
Variant Title(s): Fair Is The World
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN ORCHARDS, by CLARK ASHTON SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Walled with fair azures of the wintering year
Last Line: Of love is colored like the dying year.
Subject(s): Autumn; Orchards; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN PENTECOST, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The pouring love is god's
Last Line: To a clear flash, a shining
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN PLAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: World, to-day you're red and gold
Last Line: Who could call you sad or old?
Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN PROPHECY, by GORDON DALE CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The season of death and repining
Last Line: Inevitable to death.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN RAIN, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two days ago the sky was
Last Line: Steep rocks through the soaking ferns
Subject(s): Autumn; Rain; Seasons; Sky; Fall


AUTUMN RAIN, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two days ago the sky was
Last Line: Steep rocks through the soaking ferns
Subject(s): Autumn; Rain; Seasons; Sky


AUTUMN ROSES, by MARGARET STANLEY-WRENCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now when the year dips swiftly towards winter
Last Line: Before the even greyness of the night.
Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Roses; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN SCENE, by E. FLEMING HOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Red leaves, whirling in a dance of death
Last Line: Alone defiant of the chilly blast.
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN SEA, by SHIN TONGCHUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I came to meet the
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN SO SOON, by MORIKAWA KYOROKU    Poem Source                    
Last Line: First tinted maples
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN SOLILOQUY, by ELSIE DINWIDDIE BARTLETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The moan of dying leaves falls hauntingly
Last Line: Or agony that beauty cannot last?
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN SONG, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Soon we will plunge ourselves into cold shadows
Last Line: Echoes of departure keep resounding in the air
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A keen west wind from the hills away
Last Line: Hopes and dreamings and dead desires.
Subject(s): Autumn; Desire; Hope; Memory; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Wind; Fall; Optimism; Songs


AUTUMN SONG, by EDWARD DOWDEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long autumn rain;/white mists which choke the vale, and blot the sides
Last Line: Of winged things.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN SONG, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH    Poem Text                    
First Line: A little wind will loosen now
Last Line: What took so little, gave so much.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN SONG, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is well with the gold
Last Line: And all is a praise
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN SONG, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now's the time when children's noses
Last Line: And just love the autumn weather.
Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN SONG, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Autumn has emptied heaven of its birds
Last Line: And crows talk hoarsely in the frozen wood
Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Migration; Nature; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN SONG, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Know'st thou not at the fall of the leaf
Last Line: In autumn at the fall of the leaf?
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN SONG, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No clouds are in the morning sky
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


AUTUMN SONG, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My life is but a leaf upon the tree
Last Line: Is mystery of mysteries to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Self; Fall


AUTUMN SONG, by PAUL VERLAINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The heavy thrall / of the sobbing call
Last Line: Dead leaf.
Subject(s): Autumn


AUTUMN STIRRINGS: 1, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jade white dew scars and harms
Last Line: Pounding blocks urgent in dusk
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Autumn; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Seasons


AUTUMN STIRRINGS: 2, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On kui-zhou's lonely walls
Last Line: In front of sandbars has cast its light %on flowers of the reeds
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Autumn; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Seasons


AUTUMN STIRRINGS: 3, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A thousand homes of the mountain town
Last Line: And the mantles they wear are light
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Autumn; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Seasons


AUTUMN STIRRINGS: 4, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have been told that chang-an
Last Line: Is the longing of my heart
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Autumn; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Seasons


AUTUMN STIRRINGS: 5, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Palace towers of peng-lai
Last Line: Take my place in dawn court's ranks?
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Autumn; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Seasons


AUTUMN STIRRINGS: 6, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the mouth of the ju-tang gorge
Last Line: Qin since ancient times has been %land of emperors
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Autumn; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Seasons


AUTUMN STIRRINGS: 7, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The waters of kun-ming pool
Last Line: Lakes and rivers fill the earth, %and one old man, fishing
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Autumn; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Lakes; Seasons


AUTUMN STIRRINGS: 8, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At kun-wu hill the yu-su brook
Last Line: Head hanging in bitterness
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Autumn; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Seasons


AUTUMN SUNSET ON THE SIERRA NEVADAS, by DOROTHY BOARDMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love the autumn view
Last Line: Over all the landscape valley.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Fall


AUTUMN THOUGHTS, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I, from my chamber-window, mark
Last Line: Soon after bleak december.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN THOUGHTS, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In yanzhi the yellow leaves are falling
Last Line: Vainly I lament the fallen orchids
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN THOUGHTS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gone hath the spring, with all its flowers
Last Line: Nor summer warm thy frozen heart.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN THOUGHTS (1), by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sumac showing faint traces of red
Last Line: To bring it unto my page?
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN THOUGHTS (2), by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mornings up before the rooster calls
Last Line: It's not that I don't have my cup of wine for comfort, %but when will this press of business ever sl
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): Autumn; Labor And Laborers; Seasons


AUTUMN THOUGHTS (8), by HAN YU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Blown tumbling, leaves that fall to the ground
Last Line: There's something on my mind just now, %a task to be done that never ends
Alternate Author Name(s): T'su-chih
Subject(s): Autumn; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Seasons


AUTUMN THOUGHTS, RHYMED AFTER MOTHER'S POEM ON THINGS PAST, by YE XIAOLUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The drizzle saturates the banana trees
Last Line: Then I will pick them, and a subtle fragrance will fill my sleeves
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN THOUGHTS: 2, by HAN YU    Poem Source                    
First Line: When white dew descends on the hundred grasses
Last Line: Each has its season, its own proper time; %why should pine and cypress alone be prized?
Alternate Author Name(s): T'su-chih
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN THOUGHTS: 8, by HAN YU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Leaves fall turning to the ground
Last Line: A man has times when he must think, %and work to do that never ends
Alternate Author Name(s): T'su-chih
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN TIME, by HERMAN J. D. CARTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tarnished leaves scurry across the plains
Last Line: That he is not changing to moldy sod.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Wind; Fall


AUTUMN TINTS, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Coral-coloured yew-berries
Last Line: Flames leap high and higher.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN TUNE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweeter than spring, sweeter than spring
Last Line: Where death is a-dream on azure wings.
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Dreams; Fear; Life; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; Nightmares


AUTUMN TWILIGHT, by CHI-HA KIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Autumn twilight %is sad to see
Last Line: Holding the universe in my heart
Subject(s): Autumn; Hearts; Love; Prisons And Prisoners; Seasons


AUTUMN VESPERS, by EDWIN COULSON CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: The season's turn now brings autumnal days
Last Line: We sense the fall.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN WEATHER, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Had I a flute made out of the heart
Last Line: Of a seven-year cherry tree!
Subject(s): Autumn; Flutes; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN WIND, by ALFRED D. BUTTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Break, o wind! / break against the trees
Last Line: Kick up your heels and run away!
Subject(s): Autumn; Dust; Seasons; Weather; Wind; Fall


AUTUMN WIND, by GEORGE H. DILLON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now speaks the naked wind alone
Last Line: It is the only endless song.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Wind; Fall


AUTUMN WINDS, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     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


AUTUMN WINDS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O autumn winds, with voices far away
Last Line: And stand forth free to struggle and endure!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Trees; Wind; Fall


AUTUMN WISDOM, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wisdom is on me
Last Line: Of sinking stars. ...
Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Moon; Seasons; Wisdom; Fall


AUTUMN WITHIN, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is autumn; not without
Last Line: Comes no murmur from the mill.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN WOODS, by ANNA M. ACKERMANN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The autumn woods in late october vie
Last Line: Of color softened by warm sunset light.
Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Seasons; Fall; Woods


AUTUMN WOODS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ere, in the northern gale
Last Line: And waste its little hour.
Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Seasons; Fall; Woods


AUTUMN WOODS, by BLANCHE SHOEMAKER WAGSTAFF    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These woods are wintry now ... That yesterday
Alternate Author Name(s): Carr, Mrs. Donald
Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Seasons


AUTUMN [OR, NOVEMBER DAYS], by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love the fitful gust that shakes
Last Line: The mill sails on the heath a-going.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN'S CLOISONNE, by ALBERTA MCMAHON SHERWIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wayside hedge is starred with purple aster
Last Line: He fain would temper it to mortal sight.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN'S COLD, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's my snowy crown
Last Line: To learn from empty boats!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Zen Buddhism


AUTUMN'S SIDEREAL, NOVEMBER'S A BALL AND CHAIN, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR.    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After the leaves have fallen, the sky turns blue again
Last Line: Through the white pines, somesuch and susrration. Sh-h-h. Sh-h-h...
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN'S SPLENDOURS, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Don't miss the autumn's splendours'
Last Line: Of hopes that summer sold.
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The


AUTUMN, CRYSTAL EYE, by MARGOT RUDDOCK    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN, FORSAKE THESE HILLS, by FRANK ERNEST HILL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN, FR. THE GARDEN, by VICTORIA MARY SACKVILLE-WEST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Autumn in felted slippers shuffles on
Last Line: With red-hot poker, autumn's final torch
Alternate Author Name(s): Nicholson, Harold, Mrs.; Sackville-west, Vita
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN, NO ANSWER, by HERMAN FONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's not ideal, or even fair
Last Line: For large animals crossing the road
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMN. THE THIRD PASTORAL, ORHYLAS AND AEGON, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the shade a spreading beech displays
Last Line: And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.
Subject(s): Autumn; Country Life; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN: 1, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: October has come - already now the wood
Last Line: To ravage winter crops in distant fields, %they bay until the sleeping forest yields
Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich
Subject(s): Autumn; Scottish Translations; Seasons


AUTUMN: 10, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And I forget the world - and in dear silence
Last Line: And now a swarm of unseen guests draws near, %both old friends and imagined shapes are here
Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich
Subject(s): Autumn; Scottish Translations; Seasons


AUTUMN: 11, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And have thoughts break like waves along my brain
Last Line: Masts are shinned up and down, sails belly free, %the huge mass moves and slices through the sea
Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich
Subject(s): Autumn; Scottish Translations; Seasons


AUTUMN: 12, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Great to sail off with it! But where to go?
Last Line: Or switzers' pyramid array on show, %or wild and sad scottish rock-fortresses
Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich
Subject(s): Autumn; Scottish Translations; Seasons


AUTUMN: 2, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now is my time: I hold no brief for spring
Last Line: While a warm hand stirs from beneath her sable %to press my hand, and make her flush and tremble
Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich
Subject(s): Autumn; Scottish Translations; Seasons


AUTUMN: 3, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What a delight to glide on sharp-shod iron
Last Line: Pleasure for ever from juliet in a sledge, %or vegetate by stove and window-ledge
Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich
Subject(s): Autumn; Scottish Translations; Seasons


AUTUMN: 4, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer, you beauty! I would be truly yours
Last Line: Once more: pancakes and wine for her farewell, %ice and ice-cream for her memorial
Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich
Subject(s): Autumn; Scottish Translations; Seasons


AUTUMN: 5, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Late autumn days are no one's favourite
Last Line: Such good, in autumn? Yes, I can discover %its beckoning essence, and I am no boastful lover
Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich
Subject(s): Autumn; Scottish Translations; Seasons


AUTUMN: 6, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How to persuade you? Were you ever taken
Last Line: Her face has twilight in its blood, not dawn; %alive today, tomorrow she is gone
Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich
Subject(s): Autumn; Scottish Translations; Seasons


AUTUMN: 7, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Melancholy time, yet magic to the sight!
Last Line: The rare sun-ray and the first test of frost, %the distant menace of winter's grizzled ghost
Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich
Subject(s): Autumn; Scottish Translations; Seasons


AUTUMN: 8, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And with each autumn I bud and bloom once more
Last Line: Of life and happiness - that's my organism %(and please forgive this forced prosaicism)
Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich
Subject(s): Autumn; Scottish Translations; Seasons


AUTUMN: 9, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My horse is brought; it shakes its mane and takes
Last Line: Now more, now smouldering and now flaring: %I read there, or I feed my long thoughts, staring
Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich
Subject(s): Autumn; Scottish Translations; Seasons


AUTUMN: A DIRGE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing
Last Line: And make her grave green with tear on tear.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN; A DIRGE, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The autumn is old
Last Line: Here's enow for sad thinking!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN; WRITTEN IN THE GROUNDS OF MARTIN COLE, ESQ., by BERNARD BARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When is the aspect which nature wears
Last Line: Give birth to sensations superiour to joy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMNAL, by GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: October-brutal rain punishes leaves
Last Line: Slushing our filthy, snowy rhetoric
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


AUTUMNAL, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pale amber sunlight falls across
Last Line: Beneath the drear november trees.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMNAL, by MARK IRWIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The saffron-colored leaves are cresting into their moment. It's
Last Line: It is to be here. And because we are not gone, still we are early
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Nature; Seasons; Wind


AUTUMNAL, by KATHLEEN MCGOOKEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can only tell you
Last Line: Only the smoke wasn't like a scarf. It was only like smoke which smelled bad
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Smells


AUTUMNAL, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To-night the tumult of the autumn wind
Last Line: A little while, o leaves, and we shall know!
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Earth; Seasons; Wind; Fall; Dead, The; World


AUTUMNAL, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wish the poplar tree would shed
Last Line: Again, the long-perished dear delight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Autumn; Poplar Trees; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMNAL CHARACTERISTICS, by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: In sunny spots of woodland, boys are gathering walnuts, and shouting
Last Line: Pity, that the frosty night will so soon stop their music!
Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons


AUTUMNAL ECSTASY, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If my soul were a flower
Last Line: But flames to deeper glory.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMNAL LEAVES, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: No more ye sway and shimmer in the sky
Last Line: The efflorescence of the opening year.
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Nature; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMNAL ODE, by FRANCIS FAWKES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ere yet the russet foliage fall
Last Line: "this season's sober calm for blandishing repose."
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMNAL SONNET, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods
Last Line: Poor earth, where we were wont to live and grieve.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Autumn; Desertion & Nonsupport; Grief; Leaves; Melancholy; Seasons; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection


AUTUMNAL VESPERS, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The clarion wind, that blew so loud at morn
Last Line: My strength, o god! In thine
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Autumn; Life; Love; Memory; Seasons; Wind; Fall


AUTUMNUAL, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, take my hand for one more time
Last Line: A wistful medley of dead leaves %and autumn rain
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


BARTLETT'S QUOTATIONS, by ELAINE EQUI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here are half a dozen leaves
Last Line: Of fire held in the hand
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Nature; Poetry And Poets; Seasons


BAVARIAN GENTIANS, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not every man has gentians in his house
Last Line: Among the splendour of torches of darkness, shedding darkness on the lost bride and her groom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Autumn; Consolation; Flowers; Gentians; Seasons; Fall; Fringed Gentians


BEAUTY IN DEATH, by A. M. WATTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: We see a beauty in the dying leaves
Last Line: A life with words and deeds of love aglow.
Subject(s): Autumn; Beauty; Death; Nature; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The


BEFORE AND AFTER SUMMER, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Looking forward to the spring
Last Line: I, alas, perceived not when.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Spring; Fall


BEFORE WINTER, by FREDERICK R. MCCREARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Long ago / the thunder went talking itself to the dark hills
Last Line: And darkness is peace.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


BEGINNING OF AUTUMN, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Both the same green
Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


BELOW THE LAUREL TREE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Sneaking off through the gold trees?
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Trees


BESIDES THE AUTUMN POETS SING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Thy windy will to bear!
Subject(s): Autumn; Poetry & Poets


BETWEEN THE MOUNTAINS AND THE SEA, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In murky gloom, in petulant rain
Last Line: And wake the yearning soul to praise.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Wales; Fall; Welshmen; Welshwomen


BEWITCHED BY AUTUMN, by NED PASTOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Autumn's enchanting - %a riot of color
Last Line: I'm not an all-season %but just a fall guy!
Subject(s): Autumn; Colors; Seasons


BITTER FOR SWEET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer is gone with all its roses
Last Line: And the last buds cease blowing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Seasons; Winter; Fall


BRIAR ROSE, by MICHELLE BOISSEAU    Poem Source                    
First Line: March. Maples waver their red beginnings
Last Line: We wake to see how strangely time has passed
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


BRIEF WORDS FOR OCTOBER, by ELMO RUSS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Crying like a dervish born of dark
Last Line: To sing a hush-hush sound.
Subject(s): Autumn; Night; October; Seasons; Time; Fall; Bedtime


BROCADE SHAWL, by EDYTHE GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Autumn will bring a hutch of gold
Last Line: Upon the ground.
Subject(s): Autumn; Night; Seasons; Fall; Bedtime


BRUSHED BY THE MASTER'S HAND, by PAUL FLOYD CORNISH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Somebody's coming to my house
Last Line: At the close of an autumn day.
Subject(s): Autumn; Frost; Seasons; Winter; Fall


BURNING AUTUMN LEAVES, by FLORENCE ENGLISH HADDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The spicy smell of burning autumn leaves
Last Line: I light a match, -- then, -- only ashes here.
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Fall


BURNING OF THE LEAVES, by LAURENCE BINYON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now is the time for the burning of the leaves
Last Line: Nothing is certain, only the certain spring
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


BY THE WISSAHICKON, by CHARLES R. MURPHY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here in this place there shall be solitude
Last Line: Alone, with the unknown, and snow, and night.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


CAN YOU COUNT THE STARS?, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


CARN A-TURNEN YOLLER, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The copse ha' got his shiady boughs
Last Line: The ears so ripe ar yoller.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


CAROUSE, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Autumn, in her scarlet cloak
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


CELESTE: 10. LOVE IN AUTUMN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is already autumn, and not in my heart only
Last Line: Yet, leaves, ye have had your rapture, and thou, poor heart, thy summer!
Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Seasons; Fall


CHANCE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Give me a chance,' an acorn said
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


CHILD AND THE WORLD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I see a nest in a green elm-tree
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


CLEAR AUTUMN, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This small flat clearing is not
Last Line: Brilliant under a gauze of light
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


CLEAR AUTUMN, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This small flat clearing is not
Last Line: Brilliant under a gauze of light
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


COLOUR, by ADELINE WHITE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The world is full of colour!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


COMPLEX AUTUMNAL, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I let the smoke out of the windows
Last Line: With the sound of the fall in the air.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Women; Women's Rights; Fall; Feminism


CONCLUDING VERSES, AFTER RETURNING HOME FROM AN AUTUMNAL MORNING WALK, by BERNARD BARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the very carnival of nature
Last Line: "with borrow'd light from thee, for they are thine!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet
Subject(s): Homecoming; Nature; Autumn; Thanksgiving; Mortality; Fall


CONSTELLATIONS OF AUTUMN, by ERIC PANKEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who oversees this congregation, this collect of caws, this clamor of rooks
Last Line: Western hills. The sun all haze. Read the poems of my teachers and go %back to bed
Subject(s): Autumn; Constellations; Seasons


CONTRA MORTEM: THE FALL, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still after the clapper cracked the bell
Last Line: In the histories of anguish quietly told
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


CONTRACT, by KAREN THEMSTRUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: This fall, all the leaves die
Last Line: The body can arrange its own murder
Subject(s): Absence; Autumn; Death; Leaves; Seasons


CORN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a plant you often see
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


CORNUCOPIA, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The naked cornucpoia of autumn fields
Subject(s): Autumn; Fall


CRADLE LOGIC OF AUTUMN, by JAY WRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each instant comes with a price, the blue-edged bill
Last Line: The heart alone given power to recite %its faith, what a cradled life finds emblematic
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


CRICKET, by CHI-HA KIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the cricket's song %a green star
Last Line: Is clothed in splendor
Subject(s): Autumn; Creation; Crickets; Prisons And Prisoners; Seasons


CROWNS OF FIRE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Autumn draws its crowns of fire %as in a wakeful sleep
Last Line: I am happy galloping in this autumn of reddish horses
Subject(s): Autumn; Hearts; Love; Seasons; Shadows; Solitude


DALLOW'S BLUFF, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An autumn pall of heat hung sultrily over
Last Line: And time swept on and dallow's landing forgot.
Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Marriage; Prostitution; Seasons; Fall; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


DANCE OF THE LEAVES, by LOUISE ABNEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The autumn leaves are dancing down
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


DARK DAYS OF AUTUMN, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dark days of autumn grows cloudy and rainy
Last Line: Rauk and mist are for ever in sight
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


DAYS LIKE THESE, by ELLA ELIZABETH EGBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I like the tangled brakes and briers
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


DEAD AUTUMN, by BEULAH ALLYNE BELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: So harsh the tolling of the wind
Last Line: Of wild confetti in a faded leaf!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


DEAD LEAVES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As though a gipsy maiden with dim look
Last Line: Of home intrudes upon our loneliness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Autumn; Dawn; Dusk; Night; Seasons; Fall; Sunrise; Bedtime


DEDICATION 1878, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some nine years gone, as we dwelt together
Last Line: Though the thought at its heart should be deep as the sea.
Subject(s): Autumn; Friendship; Seasons; Fall


DEPARTURE POEM, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Autumn ending
Last Line: Clamshells on the beach
Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho
Subject(s): Autumn; Farewell; Seasons


DILL, by HEATHER DUBROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: As rash and improbable as soprano
Last Line: Losses into greens %and green trumps brown
Subject(s): Autumn; Gardens And Gardening; Seasons


DO YOU KNOW?, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you know the grapes are purpling
Last Line: You would know that autumn's here.
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Fall


DOLOUR OF AUTUMN, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The acrid scents of autumn
Last Line: For the stars to probe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


DRY AUTUMN, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the evening, just before
Last Line: Mountains to eat your tender heart
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Autumn; Innocence; Seasons; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Fall


DRY AUTUMN, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the evening, just before
Last Line: Mountains to eat your tender heart
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Autumn; Innocence; Seasons


EARLY AUTUMN, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I almost squashed a tarantula on the road
Last Line: A blue tarantula crossed highway 286.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


EARLY AUTUMN, by WILLIAM ARNETTE WOFFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now is the season of slow days
Last Line: Dear god! Must autumn come again?
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


EARLY SNOW, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Above the forest line
Last Line: Divined the law of change.
Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Seasons; Winter; Fall


EARLY SPRING, by DOROTHY KINSEY SHISLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: More like autumn this day seems
Last Line: Of hospitable spring.
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Spring; Sun; Fall


ECLOGUE: THE COMMON A-TOOK IN, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Good morn t'ye, john. How b'ye? How b'ye?
Last Line: Or I must goo to workhouse, I do fear.
Subject(s): Autumn; Farm Life; Fences; Poverty; Property; Seasons; Social Protest; Fall; Agriculture; Farmers; Possessions


ENCHANTMENT, by NELLE ARNOLD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now autumn leaf-fires have come to this
Last Line: Till warm spring sunlight bares each scar.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


EVEN THE LEAVES, by SCOTT HORTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: No blighting frost has fallen
Last Line: Harsh voices prophesying.
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Fall


EVENING, by MALCOLM MERRITT    Poem Text                    
First Line: As leaves go down to autumn
Last Line: From the peace of midian.
Subject(s): Autumn; Evening; Seasons; Summer; Fall; Sunset; Twilight


EVERY FALL, THE SAME, by DAVID JAMES SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The green goes in september
Last Line: Leap and sing in close to the center
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


EVERYTHING THAT ACTS IS ACTUAL, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the tawny light
Subject(s): Autumn; Imagination; Relationships; Truth; Fall; Fancy


EYE REFLECTING THE GOLD OF FALL, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Silver is the ruby's faded glare
Last Line: Banging like grain like the door against ice air
Subject(s): Autumn; Cosmology; Seasons; Travel; Weather


FACING INTO IT; FOR LARRY LEVIS, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So it is here, then, after so long, and after all
Last Line: And winter in straw.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Autumn; Desolation; Disasters; October; Seasons; Storms; Fall


FADED LEAVES, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hills are bright with maples yet
Last Line: Of the eternal spring.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


FAITH, by MILDRED BENTLEY LEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Autumn, - and the trees are stripped
Last Line: Oh faithless heart, why weep? Why weep?
Subject(s): Autumn; Faith; Seasons; Fall; Belief; Creed


FALL, by RUTH GLASCOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fall comes / with the wind
Last Line: With silver frost.
Subject(s): Autumn; Cold; Seasons; Fall


FALL, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay, be content - our door that opens wide
Last Line: And like a lion shakes its golden mane %and leaps upon the world
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


FALL, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The black oaks
Subject(s): Oak Trees; Autumn; Fall


FALL, by WYATT PRUNTY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As if any army rose out of one grave
Last Line: Goes bluely as before, itself and nothing more
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


FALL, by HARRIET ZINNES    Poem Source                    
First Line: It came suddenly. You had created it. It had not been there before. This
Last Line: Not created that. But who had planted the fig tree in that northern %garden?
Subject(s): Autumn; Creation; Fig Trees; Mourning; Seasons


FALL ASTERS, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The asters, pale as my weakness
Last Line: Their amen is the kneeling world
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


FALL COMES IN BACK-COUNTRY VERMONT, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Deader they die here, or at least
Last Line: I touch the hand there on the pillow
Subject(s): Vermont; Country Life; Autumn


FALL DAY IN CHANG'AN, by LI YIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Amidst tall trees the sounds of fall are late entering my dreams
Last Line: Even without watershield broth or roast perch to provoke them, my thoughts still turn toward home
Subject(s): Autumn; Homecoming; Seasons


FALL FIELDS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sober-golden fields lie soaked in light
Last Line: Turns paler blue above such tapestry.
Subject(s): Autumn; Fields; Light; Rugs; Seasons; Fall; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Carpets


FALL FOLIAGE CALLED BATHERS & DANCERS, by ALEXANDRIA PEARY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I said, I want friendships, not love
Last Line: Commercials flicker like dolphins in ocean light
Subject(s): Autumn; Relationships; Seasons


FALL IN WOOSTER, OHIO, by JOHN KOOISTRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Leaves on the roof next door
Last Line: When the chair %comes down
Subject(s): Autumn; Ohio; Seasons


FALLEN LEAVES, by DORA DICKSON MCBROOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: I strolled o'er wooded, wind - swept hills
Last Line: Because of you, my dears.
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Fall


FALLEN LEAVES, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the frost-stripped forest boughs, the
Last Line: We need not grieve to lie forgot, like sere leaves 'neath the tree!
Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Leaves; Life; Seasons; Trees; Fall; Woods


FALLTIME, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gold of a ripe oat straw, gold of a southwest moon
Last Line: Is there something finished? And some new beginning on the way?
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


FAMILY TREES, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let fall, sparrow leaves, let fall
Last Line: We are going, going, going
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


FAREWELL TO AUTUMN, by JULIA FIELD BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mother autumn! Do not go!
Last Line: I loved you so . . .
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


FAREWELL TO SUMMER, by NINA HEMBLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: A chill in the air at evening
Last Line: I hold you in my heart.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


FAREWELL TO THE BLUE HOUSE, by ROBERT SCHAEFFER PHILLIPS    Poem Source                    
First Line: My favorite time of year was fall
Last Line: Somewhere. Somedays I felt as if %I could walk across that water
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


FINAL AUTUMN, by ANNIE FINCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Maple leaves turn black in the courtyard.
Subject(s): Autumn; Fall


FIRST DAY OF FALL, by XIA YUNYING    Poem Source                    
First Line: The autumn winds bring rain across the southern pavilion
Last Line: At her leisure, the maid plays the konghou by herself
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


FIRST WIND OF AUTUMN, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a wind blowing
Subject(s): Wind; Autumn; Fall


FIVE POEMS OF GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE: IV. AUTUMN, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the fog a farmer with a hobbled leg
Last Line: In the fog two grey silhouettes pass by
Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


FLAX FLOWER, by MARY HOWITT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the little flax flower!
Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary
Subject(s): Autumn; Flax; Nature; Seasons


FONTAINEBLEAU (AUTUMN), by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Interminable palaces front on the green parterres
Last Line: Four centuries of autumns, four centuries of leaves.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Autumn; Fontainebleau, France; Seasons; Fall


FOR AN AUTUMN FESTIVAL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The persian's flowery gifts, the shrine
Last Line: The early and the latter rain!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY, PHILIP, by JOANNE KYGER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A superabundance, an excess, a plethora of greetings
Last Line: And those far off peaks shining pure and rare
Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs.
Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Colorado (state); Grief; Leaves; Loss; Mountains; Seasons


FOUR SONGS OF FOUR SEASONS: 4. AUTUMN IN CORNWALL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The year lies fallen and faded
Last Line: Broke, breaking with the sea.
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; England; Sea; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; English; Ocean


FRIENDS, by L. G. WARNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: North wind came whistling through the wood
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


FROM A MOTOR IN MAY, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The leaves of autumn and the buds of spring
Last Line: The leaves of autumn guard the buds of spring.
Subject(s): Autumn; May (month); Nature; Order; Seasons; Spring; Fall


FROST, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Magician he, who, autumn nights
Last Line: Both field and forest, turned to gold.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


FULFILLMENT, by ALBERT VANN FOWLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tranquility is in these autumn days
Last Line: In growing corn and fields of rippled gold.
Subject(s): Autumn; Harvest; Seasons; Fall


GARDEN DAYS: 6. AUTUMN FIRES, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the other gardens
Last Line: Fires in the fall!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


GATHERING LEAVES, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spades take up leaves
Last Line: The harvest shall stop?
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Fall


GATHERING LEAVES, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spades take up leaves
Last Line: And who's to say where %the harvest shall stop?
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons


GENERAL LEW WALLACE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay, death, thou mightiest of all
Last Line: Above the pagan throne.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Flags; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The


GENTIAN, by KATE LOUISE BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In spring I found the violet
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


GIFT AND COUNTRY IN THE FALL: A LONG-DISTANCE ECLOGUE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Morrison. Hello! Hello! Is that you, wetherbee?
Last Line: Later, you'd better look for us in town.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Autumn; Cities; Country Life; Seasons; Fall; Urban Life


GIVE THANKS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Autumn day, fruitful day!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


GOD'S WEATHER: SEPTEMBER, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: All gold! Down the hillside peep clumped daisies golden
Last Line: Sends a cheer down the year to just weather—god's weather.
Subject(s): Autumn; Months; Seasons; September; Weather; Fall


GOD'S WORLD, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!
Last Line: No burning leaf; prithee, let no bird call.
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


GOLD MOUTHS CRY, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gold mouths cry with the green young
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Autumn; Fall


GOLDEN OCTOBER, by WALTER E. ISENHOUR    Poem Text                    
First Line: October is the golden month
Last Line: When heaven's crown appears.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


GOLDENROD, by MRS. F. J. LOVEJOY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tell me, sunny goldenrod
Subject(s): Autumn; Goldenrod; Seasons


GOLDENROD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: How in the world did I happen to bloom
Subject(s): Autumn; Goldenrod; Seasons


GOOD-BY SUMMER, by CAROLINE CONVERSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O summer, you have said good - by once more
Last Line: And o the splendor of your golden days!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Summer; Fall


GORGEOUS DEATH, by GEORGE HERBERT NELSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The path along the river's side
Last Line: Was dying in a flash of glory.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


GOSSIP OF THE NUTS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Said the shagbark to the chestnut
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


GRACKLE AT THE BREAK OF DAY, by JAMES MICHAEL ROBBINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gray autumn
Last Line: The eye a moon in grackle sky
Subject(s): Autumn; Grackles; Seasons


GRASSES AND TREES, by FUMIYA NO YASUHIDE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: There comes no autumn
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


HAIKU, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A crow
Last Line: Autumn evening
Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


HAIKU, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What voice
Last Line: In the autumn wind
Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


HAIKU, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sick on a journey
Last Line: The withered fields
Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


HARVEST MOON, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hush! Was my whisper
Last Line: That harvesting.
Subject(s): Autumn; Harvest; Moon; Seasons; Fall


HAZE GOLD, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sun, you may send your haze gold
Last Line: Keep all we can of these haze gold yellows?
Subject(s): Autumn; Fog; Seasons; Yellow (color); Fall; Haze


HE HAD A GOOD YEAR, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While he was going blind. Autumnal light
Last Line: He said, “he would see things this way.”
Subject(s): Autumn; Blindness; God; Rainbows; Seasons; Fall; Visually Handicapped


HEART UNBROKEN AND THE COURAGE FREE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is late autumn, the end of indian summer
Last Line: I look at them, they are the color of snow
Subject(s): Autumn; Eyes; Nature; Seasons


HER GARDEN, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: I was such a quaint old garden
Last Line: In her arms are purple flowers.
Subject(s): Autumn; Gardens & Gardening; Seasons; Fall


HEREAFTER, by RONALD LEWIS CARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's autumn-time on salisbury plain
Last Line: When fighting's over be there still!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Fall; First World War


HITHER, MEADOW GOSSIP, TELL ME!, by H. PRESCOTT BEACH    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


HO, FOR SLUMBERLAND!', by EBEN EUGENE REXFORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: A little song for bedtime, when, robed in gowns of white
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


HOJOKI, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Venus in the pale green sky
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Spring; Summer; Winter; Fall


HOJOKI, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Venus in the pale green sky
Last Line: Busy all night long tonight
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Spring; Summer; Winter


HOUND, by BABETTE DEUTSCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Some are sick for spring and warm winds blowing
Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs.
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


HOW THE LEAVES CAME DOWN, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll tell you how the leaves came down
Last Line: "it is so nice to go to bed!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Fall


HURRAHING IN HARVEST, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks arise
Last Line: And hurls for him, o half hurls earth for him off under his feet.
Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Religion; Seasons; Fall; Theology


I AM THE AUTUMNAL SUN, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is the constant music of my grief
Subject(s): Autumn; Sun; Grief


I KEEP THINKING, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I keep thinking of the green men and women
Last Line: And the last grasshopper jumped into winter snow
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


I LOOK AROUND, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In the autumn evening
Subject(s): Autumn; Evening; Seasons


I LOVE THESE DAYS, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love these days when autumn leaves
Last Line: They snuggle close and go to sleep
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves


I WOULD HOLD THE AUTUMN, by RUTH SMITH EWY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Could I incase within a crystal vault
Last Line: "and resurrection -- there our glory lies."
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


IF ONE WERE TO KEEP...., by CHARLES VILDRAC    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If one were to keep for many years and days
Last Line: That I would call for death -- with a great cry! . . .
Alternate Author Name(s): Messager, Charle
Subject(s): Autumn; Birds; Death; Kisses; Sea; Seasons; Women; Fall; Dead, The; Ocean


IF YOU WERE COMING IN THE FALL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That will not state—its sting
Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Autumn


IMMORTAL AUTUMN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I speak this poem now with grave and level voice
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


IMMORTAL AUTUMN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I speak this poem now with grave and level voice
Last Line: I cry to you beyond this bitter air
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


IMMORTAL BEAUTY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath october's paling sun how fair
Last Line: Like these winged florets, this october day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Autumn; Beauty; Immortality; October; Seasons; Fall


IN A COLUMBARIUM, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The autumn sun still bravely streams
Last Line: Love soars immortal to the skies.
Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Past; Roman Empire; Seasons; Time; Fall


IN AN AUTUMN WOOD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou, too, o bronze-eyed darling of the feast
Last Line: I love thy loveliness that hears no cry.
Subject(s): Autumn; Hearts; Love; Pain; Seasons; Fall; Suffering; Misery


IN AUTUMN, by FRANCIS JAMMES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You see in autumn on the telegraph wires
Last Line: Tries, falters and, before it flees, comes back.
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Faith; Grief; Seasons; Spring; Fall; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness


IN AUTUMN, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The leaves are many under my feet
Last Line: And love me in mist and rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


IN AUTUMN, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Decay, decay,' the wildering west winds cry
Last Line: An age-worn figure limps its weary way.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


IN AUTUMN, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With the leaves around her dying
Last Line: Fade in the autumn weather.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


IN AUTUMN, by SHIN TONGCHUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We love deeper in autumn
Last Line: Desiring to be like the salvias blazing there
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


IN AUTUMN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Frail autumn lights upon the leaves
Last Line: That takes the light and colour from the day!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


IN AUTUMN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now that the birds are gone
Last Line: Returns forever to remain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


IN AUTUMN WHEN THE WOODS ARE RED, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And skies are gray and clear
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Autumn; Walking


IN COVENTRY, by JAMES J. DALY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My friends, the leaves, who used to entertain me
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


IN EARLY AUTUMN, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On a day when the trees are exchanging the cured gold of the sun
Last Line: Under this hill of bones that calls my flesh its home
Subject(s): Autumn; Colors; Seasons; Trees; Fall


IN OCTOBER, by JOHN BURROUGHS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now comes the sunset of the verdant year
Last Line: That breathes of peace and rest.
Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons; Fall


IN SEPTEMBER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mornings frosty grow, and cold
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


IN THE FALL, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the fall tired father's fancy gravely turns
Last Line: Back.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


IN THE FOREST, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The trees are lit
Subject(s): Jews; Autumn; Judaism; Fall


IN THE GLOAMING, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The leaves are sere and turning brown
Last Line: I'll hide my tired heart from view.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


IN THE GRAY OF THE EVENING; AUTUMN, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When o'er yon forest solitudes
Last Line: Secrets almost ineffable!
Subject(s): Autumn; Evening; Seasons; Fall; Sunset; Twilight


IN THE NIGHT, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard the footfall of the hail
Last Line: For all that she has lost.
Subject(s): Autumn; Rain; Seasons; Fall


INTERIOR WITH FOREST AUTUMN (DETAIL WITH STAGS), by DINU ADAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: The stag herds descend from the mountains
Last Line: And you smile upon its grizzled breathing
Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Seasons


INTERLUDE, by ALICE TAFT STROWD    Poem Text                    
First Line: With the first golden promise of autumn
Last Line: Relinquished to frost again.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


INTERMEZZO; PASTORAL: 5. AUTUMN TWILIGHT: GREY AND GOLD, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The long september evening dies
Last Line: Lover with lover wandering.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FORMS, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What the birds say
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Fall


INTERPRETATION, by CAROLINE FINKELSTEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw the treeline from the center
Last Line: That agent of mystery, all tactics, really, %and mouth
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


INTRUDER, by PADRAIG J. DALY    Poem Source                    
First Line: You came from that early time
Last Line: Trampling as you walked %all my glorious borders
Subject(s): Autumn; Cruelty; Seasons


IT ROLLS ON, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Irresolute, pausing on a doubtful journey
Last Line: Here, in this place, each year
Subject(s): Autumn; Past; Seasons; Fall


IT ROLLS ON, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Irresolute, pausing on a doubtful journey
Last Line: Here, in this place, each year
Subject(s): Autumn; Past; Seasons


IT'S AUTUMN IN LODZ, FR. FOUR HAIKUS FROM POLAND, by TAD KIELCZEWSKI    Poem Source                    
Last Line: With all six bullets
Subject(s): Autumn; Poland; Seasons


JUNE LEAVES AND AUTUMN, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lush summer lit the trees to green
Last Line: Had length of days in store.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


KINDO' DIFFERENT, by MAUDE HUSTON DUNN    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is something kindo' different
Last Line: Is the favorite of mine.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


KINSHIP, by INEZ CLARK THORSEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Autumn is a woman
Last Line: With wonder in its eyes!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


LAKE COMO IN AUTUMN, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From como's curving base of blue
Last Line: The sun will bring the spring again.
Subject(s): Autumn; Beauty; Lakes; Seasons; Fall; Pools; Ponds


LAND OF ALVARGONZALEZ: EARTH, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: One morning in autumn
Last Line: Orchard, beehives and fields
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Autumn; Blood; Fields; Seasons; Spain


LANGUID SEPTEMBER, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Under the trees, orange and green
Last Line: Yellow maple leaves flutter down.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; September; Fall


LAST OF AUTUMN, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come bleak november in thy wildness come
Last Line: Thro whose dim pains the 'prisond childern peep %and look in vain for summer and for play
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


LATE AUTUMN, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: October, - and the skies are cool and grey
Last Line: His perfect harvesting; he sleeps at ease.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Autumn; Decay; Harvest; October; Seasons; Fall; Rot; Decadence


LATE AUTUMN, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The fields are frayed with autumn. Grasses go
Last Line: Earth's miracles of bloom are at an end.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


LATE AUTUMN IN THE QI-AN DISTRICT, by DU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: When winds came to willow-lined shores
Last Line: There's only an old man in a raincoat, %sitting there and fishing
Subject(s): Autumn; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Seasons


LATE IN OCTOBER, by THORA H. SEATON    Poem Text                    
First Line: An autumn leaf has fallen
Last Line: And fragrant with many springs.
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Fall


LATE LEAVES, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The leaves are falling; so am I
Last Line: And all things sweet.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


LEAFING, by SUSAN WOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Autumn twilights
Last Line: As a jack-o'-lantern
Subject(s): Autumn; Growth; Life; Seasons; Fall


LEAFING, by SUSAN WOOD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Autumn twilights
Last Line: Listen, you tell me, listen, %we are making a shelter inside you
Subject(s): Autumn; Growth; Life; Seasons


LEAVES, by JOHN LEE HIGGINS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I shall think of autumn to the end
Last Line: And shall not grieve again at autumn's loss.
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Trees; Fall


LEAVES, by DEREK MAHON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The prisoners of infinite choice
Subject(s): Leaves; Autumn; Fall


LEAVES, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Every october it becomes important, no, necessary
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Transience; Renewal; Fall; Impermanence


LEAVES, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the dry brown bough
Last Line: The rustling of their fall.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Trees; Fall


LEAVES A-VALLEN, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There the ash-tree leaves do vall
Last Line: Voremost they that dropp'd behind.
Subject(s): Autumn; Children; Death; Mortality; Seasons; Time; Fall; Childhood; Dead, The


LEAVES AND THE WIND, by GEORGE COOPER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come little leaves,' said the wind one day
Last Line: The snow laid a coverlid over their heads
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Wind


LEAVES IN THE YARD, by JOHN DANIEL PARSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Go gather leaves and heap them into / pyres!
Last Line: Buried, like leaves, in leaves of wilderness.
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Leaves; Nature; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The


LESSON, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A corn-stalk glanced down at some grasses
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


LETTER IN NOVEMBER, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love, the world
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Walking; Autumn; Fall


LIFE IN THE AUTUMN WOODS, by PHILIP PENDLETON COOKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Summer has gone
Last Line: Than pine where life is splendid.
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Virginia (state); Fall


LIFE'S AUTUMN, by MRS. S. W. RUSSELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: In spring the trees were fresh-a dainty green
Last Line: To seek the infinite the while we live.
Subject(s): Autumn; Life; Life Change Events; Longing; Nature; Seasons; Fall


LINES WRITTEN IN BOSTON ON A BEAUTIFUL AUTUMNAL DAY, by SARAH MARGARET FULLER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As late we lived upon the gentle stream
Last Line: I would not nature these last loving words in vain should say
Alternate Author Name(s): Fuller, Margaret; Ossoli, Marchioness; Ossoli, Margaret Fuller
Subject(s): Autumn; Boston; Seasons


LITTLE BY LITTLE (4), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: While the new years come, and the old years go
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


LITTLE LEAVES, by GEORGE COOPER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We must go,' sighed little ruby
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


LITTLE NUT PEOPLE, by E. J. NICHOLSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old mistress chestnut once lived in a burr
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


LOAD, by JOHN HEWITT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Today we carted home the last brown sheaf
Last Line: On withered golden-rod and snapdragon %and tarnished marigold
Subject(s): Autumn; Harvest; Seasons


LONESOME SEASON, by YI CHANGHUI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Autumn is well on ts way
Last Line: Now is the time for us %to meditate in piety
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


LONGINGS, by A. DE BERNARDI JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, the quakers are a - turning, and my weary heart is yearning
Last Line: Fall has flung his vivid paintbrush with a free and flowing hand!
Subject(s): Autumn; Longing; Seasons; Fall


LOST, by EMMA MAGIN BISSELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fluttering leaves by the wind are tossed
Last Line: Did you say farewell when I plucked that rose?
Subject(s): Autumn; Loss; Seasons; Fall


LOST: THE SUMMER, by RAYMOND MACDONALD ALDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where has the summer gone?
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


LOVE IN AUTUMN, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the curtains of the rain
Last Line: Or the murmur of the leaves.
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Love; Nature; Seasons; Fall


LOVE IN OCTOBER, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fields, the clouds, the farms and farming
Last Line: These many loves would founder in that night.
Subject(s): Autumn; Farm Life; Love; Seasons; Spring; Fall; Agriculture; Farmers


LOVE IN THE AUTUMN, by P. R. MINAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I cared not for autumn weather
Last Line: And danced on the garnered sheaves.
Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Seasons; Fall


LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 58, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Half in a dream
Last Line: Grows fainter and fades away
Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Seasons; Time


LUNG-MEN VILLAGE, AUTUMN, by HSU HSUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Refusing worldly worries
Last Line: A hill, a tree. An empty drifting boat
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Zen Buddhism


LWONESOMENESS, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I do zew, wi' nimble hand
Last Line: Up here a-while. Do come.
Subject(s): Autumn; Parents; Seasons; Solitude; Fall; Parenthood; Loneliness


LYRIC, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the still, sombre evening closes down
Last Line: A union through the years.
Subject(s): Autumn; Memory; Fall


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 62, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis autumn, the night's dark and gloomy
Last Line: She looks with many a tear.
Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Night; Seasons; Tears; Fall; Bedtime


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 63, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trees in the autumn wind rustle
Last Line: "thy foolish reverie?"
Subject(s): Autumn; Night; Seasons; Trees; Wind; Fall; Bedtime


LYRICS TO IANTHE (2). LAMENT, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mild is the parting year, and sweet
Last Line: The tear that would have soothed it all.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


LYRIQUE (A MADONNA LUCCIOLA), by JOSEPH KLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Warmth / and softness / of summer
Last Line: As a wind-swept quarry.
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The


MAIN AUTUMN, by HELEN K. RICHARDSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: When apple trees begin to bear
Last Line: And I am clothed in polar air, %and itchy woolen underwear
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


MAPLE AND SUMACH, by CECIL DAY LEWIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maple and sumach down this autumn ride
Last Line: Speak in me now for all who are to die!
Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas
Subject(s): Autumn; Environment; Seasons; Trees; Fall; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


MAPLE LEAVES, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: October turned my maple's leaves to gold
Last Line: Like coins between a dying miser's fingers.
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Fall


MAPLE LEAVES IN AUTUMN, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the many leaves that change
Last Line: A scarlet wreath you crown.
Subject(s): Autumn; Maple Trees; Seasons; Fall


MAPLES IN FALL, by JR. A. POULIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: These trees tremble with a precious
Last Line: The bulk of the smallest human need
Subject(s): Autumn; Maple Trees; Seasons


MARIGOLDS, by SUSAN HARTLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dame nature years and years ago
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


MARSH MARIGOLDS, by NORA (CHESSON) HOPPER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here in the water-meadows
Last Line: Against the time of sleep
Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Marigolds; Seasons


MATER DOLOROSA, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Again maternal autumn grieves
Last Line: Who died upon a tree.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Autumn; Crucifixion; Seasons; Fall; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion


MAUDE AND THE CRICKET, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Good night, dear maudie,' I softly said
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


MEAPLE LEAVES BE YOLLOW, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, let's stroll down so vur's the poun'
Last Line: Though meäple leaves be yollow.
Subject(s): Autumn; Maple Trees; Seasons; Fall


MEDITATION IN AUTUMN, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: High with red leaves and sounds sharp sweeping
Last Line: Into what calm seasons do we come at length?
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


MERRY AUTUMN, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's all a farce-these tales they tell
Last Line: Just melts into thanksgiving.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


MESSAGE TO CALIBAN, by ERIC HOWARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our one fall sign
Last Line: His words cathedral-sized %and in those hands leaves
Subject(s): Autumn; Fathers And Sons; Labor And Laborers; Leaves; Seasons


METAPHOR IN OCTOBER, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: At what hour a man finds his dying
Last Line: And mountains fall on us
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


MIGRATION, by ANNE REYNOLDS VOEGTLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As flocks lift up from a low-tide shore
Last Line: Beyond the singular, needing for completion %the briefest period of northern sun
Subject(s): Autumn; Birds; Migration; Seasons


MISCHIEF NIGHT, by DEBORAH GORLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: After dinners in kitchens, the black fire follows us
Last Line: Bright deaths discovered, pumpkins smashed in the streets
Subject(s): Autumn; Family Life; Seasons


MULANHUA: AUTUMN NIGHT, by XU CAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The night is cold, I cannot bear the keen west wind
Last Line: While along the four walls autumn crickets compete in shrieking
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


MY AUTUMN, by MOON DUK-SOO    Poem Source                    
First Line: A ginkgo leaf like an angel's palm
Last Line: Treading on a soul that moans in a metallic sound?
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


NAME - OF IT - IS 'AUTUMN', by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Upon vermilion wheels
Variant Title(s): Poem: 656; Poem: 46
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


NAMING AUTUMN, by ALLAN BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walking for awhile in the creaky garden this afternoon and I thought of
Last Line: At the stream's edge; the empty house. %images return
Subject(s): Autumn; Names; Seasons


NAN GEZI: AUTUMN THOUGHTS, by JI YINGHUAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Asters enliven fall colors
Last Line: Wild goose crying at the horizon
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


NATIONAL FLOWER, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They ask me to vote for a national flower
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


NATURE'S MIRACLE, by DAVID FALLON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Autumn with chilling touch draws swiftly near
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


NAUGHTY LITTLE COMET, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a little comet who lived near the milky way
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


NERVES GRIND QUIETLY IN THE TWILIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The eyes gaze quiet at the fading embers
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; October; Seasons


NEW SPRING: 43, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Late autumnal mists all-dripping
Last Line: Much beloved and beauteous wife!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


NIGHT IN MID-AUTUMN, by K'O CHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Swift waters; soft, quiet
Last Line: Moonlight has captured the black night
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Zen Buddhism


NO AUTUMN IN MY COUNTRY, by MEENA ALEXANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tu fu wrote 'clustered
Last Line: In his autumn meditation
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Tu Fu (712-770); Fall; Du Fu


NO AUTUMN IN MY COUNTRY, by MEENA ALEXANDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tu fu wrote 'clustered
Last Line: Quickens their palms %these white chrysanthemums %are tumid.No autumn %in my country
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Tu Fu (712-770)


NO AUTUMN SUN, by AMY REQUA RUSSELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Darkened and warm, the sacramento lies
Last Line: Lays quiet hands upon this fruitful ground.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


NO AUTUMN'S INTERCEPTING CHILL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And asiatic rest. 
Subject(s): Autumn


NORTHWEST AUTUMN, by EDNA LIGHT DYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: This autumn is a gypsy maid
Last Line: And turn her garments gray!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


NOT EVER, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So hot so early. Gold light thrown onto the water to feed
Last Line: Those that can get to their feet.
Subject(s): Autumn; Childlessness; Nature; Seasons; Fall


NOVEMBER, by ALICE BENSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Silence the wind in the weeping willows
Last Line: Hoar frost covers the upland ground.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


NOVEMBER, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lonely season in lonely lands, when fled
Last Line: Of how her end shall be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Autumn; November; Seasons; Time; Wind; Fall


NOVEMBER, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The leaves are fading and falling
Last Line: Are kept alive in the snow.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


NOVEMBER, by EDMUND PALMER CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now morning points the day when yellow leaves
Last Line: Care we for snow?
Subject(s): Autumn; Morning; Night; November; Seasons; Fall; Bedtime


NOVEMBER, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Old november, sere and brown
Last Line: With hope, faith and love alway.
Subject(s): Autumn; Holidays; November; Seasons; Thanksgiving; Fall


NOVEMBER, by R. LEE GUARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: November is waiting without. With sighing and tears
Last Line: From dead summer dreams.
Subject(s): Autumn; November; Seasons; Fall


NOVEMBER, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here comes our last storm with thunder
Last Line: And the dust that settles in the cleavage %of ripe plums?
Subject(s): Autumn; Catholics - United States; Seasons; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


NOVEMBER, by FERNANDO ANTONIO SILVA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sunflowers we enjoyed together
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


NOVEMBER, by CHARD POWERS SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: The year returns, his armies in the air
Last Line: Wounded, unconquerable, and alone.
Subject(s): Autumn; November; Seasons; Fall


NOVEMBER, by EMILE VERHAEREN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The highways run in figure of the rood
Last Line: Infinitely beyond the valley and wood
Subject(s): November; Autumn


NOVEMBER COTTON FLOWER, by JEAN TOOMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Cotton; Autumn; Southern States; Fall; South (u.s.)


NOVEMBER DAYS, by GRACE A. ROGERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I like november days the best
Last Line: So they spread their wings, and fly away.
Subject(s): Autumn; November; Seasons; Fall


NOVEMBER ELEGY, by E. FLEMING HOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I looked out my window
Last Line: Like autumn leaves, dead, on the walk.
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; November; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The


NUDISTS, by FLOZARI ROCKWOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shade trees stand everywhere undressed
Last Line: Pastelled in rainbow sheen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton-hemingway, Flozari
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Trees; Fall


NUTTING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come, robert and harry, come, lily and may!
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


O LOVED AND LOST, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sit beside the sea this autumn day
Last Line: And we are one in life for evermore!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Autumn; Loss; Sea; Seasons; Fall; Ocean


OCTOBER, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: April adance in play
Last Line: On the path of the dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


OCTOBER, by JORGE CARRERA ANDRADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: October: nut and apple of the months
Last Line: With your weights and measures
Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons


OCTOBER, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is no joy to me to sit
Last Line: While the equinoctials blow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


OCTOBER, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O hushed october morning mild
Last Line: For the grapes' sake along the wall.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


OCTOBER, by ORLANDO EMERY HARVEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let us sing an ode to autumn
Last Line: Heav'n for those who do his will.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harvey, O. E.
Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons; Fall


OCTOBER, by D. M. JORDAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, haunting dreams of a sweet summer dead!
Last Line: Where you will bloom more infinitely fair.
Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons; Fall


OCTOBER, by ALICE SUTTON MCGEORGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The twilight of the year comes checkered ...
Last Line: Like blue of steel when tempered by the fire.
Subject(s): Autumn; Cold; Seasons; Fall


OCTOBER, by HANNAH TUCKER MEDVED    Poem Text                    
First Line: How I love thy colors gay
Last Line: Soon their leaves will rustle down.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


OCTOBER, by HELEN PRICE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fill my lungs with october wind
Last Line: In a heart too full for singing!
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; October; Seasons; Wind; Fall


OCTOBER, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From falling leaf to falling leaf
Last Line: Since last year -- when I loved you so.
Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


OCTOBER, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: First days in autumn make me catch my breath
Last Line: Such beauty wantonly for death to spend.
Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons; Fall


OCTOBER, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The pippins swinging on the bending boughs
Last Line: Her gold hair tossing in the autumn wind.
Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons; Fall


OCTOBER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are drinking the wine of the ages
Last Line: Is an angel at the door.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons; Fall


OCTOBER, by MAY SWENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A smudge for the horizon
Subject(s): Family Life; Autumn; Childhood Memories; Nature; Relatives; Fall


OCTOBER, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The green elm with the one great bough of gold
Last Line: Shall no more blackened and obscured be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Autumn; Happiness; Seasons; Fall; Joy; Delight


OCTOBER, by MARGERY ATWOOD TODHAL    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a sense of rich fulfilment here
Last Line: Share the character of their common dust.
Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons; Fall


OCTOBER, by JONES VERY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The frost is out, and in the open fields
Last Line: Has sent before this herald of decay %to bid me heed before the approach of winter's sterner day
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


OCTOBER - A SKETCH, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In spring, in summer, in autumnal wane
Last Line: Quiet and contemplation mantle all!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Autumn; Cold; Leaves; October; Seasons; Fall


OCTOBER CAME AGAIN, by AVIS TURNER FRENCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: My pattern made for life was good to see
Last Line: To beds of brown, and silver white with frost.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


OCTOBER CHANT, by MURIEL THURSTON LANCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Amber...Russet...Scarlet...Yellow
Last Line: Crimson... Amber... Russet... Gold.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


OCTOBER COBWEBS, by SANDRA M. GILBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Screen the garden in the late
Last Line: To move and breathe
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


OCTOBER PASTEL, by THOMAS DUNCAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: We met in spring,' he said, and heard wild geese
Last Line: "it gets dark early, doesn't it? ..."" she said."
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


OCTOBER'S BRIGHT BLUE WEATHER, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O suns and skies and clouds of june
Last Line: October's bright blue weather.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt
Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons; Fall


OCTOBER'S HEART OF GOLD, by JOY WILLIAMS HARMON    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was autumn, I remember
Last Line: Giving october's heart pure gold.
Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons; Fall


OCTOBER'S PARTY, by GEORGE COOPER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: October gave a party
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


OCTOBER'S PARTY, by GEORGE COOPER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: October gave a party
Last Line: And then the party ended %in jolly 'hands around'
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


OCTOBER'S PARTY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: October gave a party
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


OCTOBER: 1861, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not changeful april, with her suns and showers
Last Line: My life's decline—my solemn—last october.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Nature; October; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The


ODE ON AUTUMN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Adieu the pleasing rural scene
Last Line: "one glorious, one eternal spring"
Subject(s): Autumn;seasons; Fall


ODE TO A PAIR OF SANDPIPERS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: No studious haunt this mossy nook!
Last Line: For brighter pleasure!
Subject(s): Autumn; Hearts; Nature; Sandpipers; Seasons; Fall


ODE TO AUTUMN, by LOREN KLEINMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Do not go, autumn
Last Line: Like wooden crows %to walk in your limbo
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons


ODE TO AUTUMN, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Season of gusty days and cloudy nights
Subject(s): Autumn; Fall


ODE TO THE SPIRIT OF EARTH IN AUTUMN, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair mother earth lay on her back last night
Last Line: Is welcomed by his fathers up on high.
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Nymphs; Seasons; Fall


ODE TO THE WEST WIND, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: O wild west wind, thou breath of autumn's being
Last Line: If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
Variant Title(s): Ode To The West Wind: I;the West Wind
Subject(s): Autumn; Florence, Italy; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Seasons; Fall; Theology; Ocean


ODE: AUTUMN, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw old autumn in the misty morn
Last Line: To frame her cloudy prison for the soul!
Variant Title(s): Autumnal Ode
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


OLD AGE, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have heard the wild geese
Last Line: And the wind, its seer.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


OLD AUTUMN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Is this old autumn standing here
Last Line: And the dog that has no friend.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


OLD RIVER AT AUTUMN, by M. VARIN HAMLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Autumn down old river way, dropping willows
Last Line: Lingering days: autumn down old river way.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


ON AN AUTUMN DAY, THE WEATHER HAVING JUST CLEARED, by YANG WENLI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Swish, swish, a cool gust comes
Last Line: Autumn colors merit intoning and chanting
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


ON AUTUMN, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How sweet thus clad, in autumn's mellow tone
Last Line: Save gaudy robin with his crimson breast.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


ON THE APPROACH OF AUTUMN, by AMELIA OPIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell! Gay summer! Now the changing wind
Last Line: Bears in her envious veil, sweet fancy's hour away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alderson, Amelia
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


ONE FOR SAFE KEEPING, by JEFFERY DONALDSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Under the plumb gold
Last Line: I could watch the last one chime %and shimmer with the rest
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


ONE TREE IN AUTUMN, by DAVID MORTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So little wind would ruin all this gold
Last Line: This once ... This once ... For all I stayed to know.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Trees; Fall


OREGON IN OCTOBER, by VIOLET M. HOWARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Vining maple burning red
Last Line: One wanders through october.
Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons; Fall


OSCHOPHORIKON; VINTAGE PROCESSIONAL, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The staffs are wreathed; move on, move on
Last Line: From athens into phaleron.
Subject(s): Autumn; Bacchus; Greece; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Rites & Ceremonies; Seasons; Summer; Fall; Greeks


OTHER AFTERNOONS, by JOSE FONTINHAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I bend to listen to the song. From where might it come, if
Last Line: Some shepherd was following in their tracks. And as he went, he sang
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


OTHER VOICES, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Groaned the mill-wheel below
Last Line: Voices of mock and unease.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Voices; Fall


OUR AUTUMN, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The voice of nature singing mournful dirges
Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne
Subject(s): Autumn; Fall


OUT A-NUTTEN, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last week, when we'd a-haul'd the crops
Last Line: Vrom copse a-nuttèn.
Subject(s): Autumn; Farm Life; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Nuts & Nutting; Seasons; Fall; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers


OUT OF SINGING DAYS, by CLEMENT WOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Break out in fire, my hill, at autumn's calling
Last Line: To be held dumb, when the soul breaks for a cry.
Subject(s): Autumn; Poetry & Poets; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Sound; Fall


PALINODE; AUTUMN, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still thirteen years: 'tis autumn now
Last Line: "floats down, -- ""auf wiedersehen!"
Subject(s): Absence; Autumn; Seasons; Separation; Isolation; Fall


PARACELSUS: 1. PARACEI SUS ASPIRES, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come close to me, dear friends; still closer; thus!
Last Line: Fest. We wait you when you rise!
Subject(s): Autumn; Religion; Seasons; Fall; Theology


PARACELSUS: 2. PARACELSUS ATTAINS, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the waters in the varporous west
Last Line: I have attained, and now I may depart.
Subject(s): Autumn; Religion; Seasons; Fall; Theology


PARACELSUS: 3. PARACELSUS, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heap logs and let the blaze laugh out!
Last Line: Will you not call me to your side, dear aureole?
Subject(s): Autumn; Religion; Seasons; Fall; Theology


PART OF AUTUMN, by MARIE EMILIE GILCHRIST    Poem Text                    
First Line: Part of autumn it is, perhaps
Last Line: To find a beauty in being slow.
Subject(s): Autumn; Harvest; Pumpkins; Seasons; Fall


PAURA NON E NELLA CARITA, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The place, a tuscan churchyard, and the time
Last Line: And smile to hear the fatal words she saith!
Subject(s): Autumn; Cemeteries; Death; Messages & Messengers; Seasons; Tuscany, Italy; Fall; Graveyards; Dead, The


PAYSAGE MUET, by MARTIN CHESLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The stillness of a summer's day
Last Line: The hand we did not hold.
Subject(s): Autumn; Landscape; Seasons; Fall


PENNSYLVANIA AUTUMN, by ELEANOR GARTLEY MAXWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gladly the sunshine rests its golden light
Last Line: What glorious wealth the yellow sun imparts!
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Sun; Fall


PERSEPHONE IN AUTUMN, by ANN KENISTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the season of rotting fruit, when
Last Line: My poverty. What is endless %in me is the need to pay
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


PINE CAMP, by GORDON BAINE CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: There were the three of us and we were young
Last Line: We hear winds in whisper with far-distant pines.
Subject(s): Autumn; Camping; Seasons; Wind; Fall; Camps; Summer Camps


PIRATE WIND, by MARY JANE CARR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The autumn wind's a pirate
Last Line: And laugh to see you run!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Wind


PLANT SONG, by NELLIE M. BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O where do you come from, berries red
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


PLANTING MORNING GLORIES IN OCTOBER, by CHARLIE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Black-seed sputter, peppercorns
Subject(s): Morning Glories; Autumn; Fall


POEM FOR THE INSECTS IN FALL, by WILLIAM JOSEPH MEISSNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have seen them
Last Line: Their tiny opaque brushstrokes coating the windshield %like first frost
Subject(s): Autumn; Insects; Seasons


POEM IN AUTUMN, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sky is not the same; not brighter but
Last Line: Trailing like smoke across the wounded air
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


POETIC EPIGRAMS: 10. THE AUTUMN MOON, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long since the moon has found
Last Line: In her desireless round.
Subject(s): Autumn; Moon; Seasons; Fall


POETIC EPIGRAMS: 3. AUTUMN SADNESS, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From grief no hope could numb
Last Line: Does autumn sadness come.
Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Seasons; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness


POINTS OF THE COMPASS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Said wind to the bright little weather vane
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


POMONA, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The hive's full of honey, the steading of stacks
Last Line: Perhaps not the goddess, but one of her girls!
Subject(s): Apples; Autumn; Fruit; Seasons; Women; Fall


PRAYER FOR MICHAELMAS, by VIOLA GERARD GARVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Good saint michael, if we must
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


PRAYER IN AUTUMN, by KIM HYUN-SUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let me pray alone in autumn
Last Line: After crossing the swelling ocean %and the valleys of lilies
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


PRAYER TO THE SPIRIT OF AUTUMN, by AMEY SMYTH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Unearthly radiance of the autumn hills
Last Line: To keep this vision that I thought was lost!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


PRELUDE TO WINTER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A big young bareheaded woman
Subject(s): Moths; Autumn; Fall


PRESCIENCE, by MARIE AUSTIN MAJOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: The trees that were in summer decked
Last Line: Imploring, saddened arms of eld.
Subject(s): Autumn; Future Life; Mortality; Seasons; Fall; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


PRIVATE FALL, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mots of haydust rise and fall
Last Line: And we tell no one
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


PROTHALAMION FOR AN AUTUMN WEDDING, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: How pure the hearts of lovers as they walk
Last Line: And a still center
Variant Title(s): Prothalamio
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


PROVIDENCE IN THE FALL OF A NUTHATCH, by PHILLIP STERLING    Poem Source                    
First Line: By midday the patio
Last Line: And the beasts of field %adore me
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


PURPLE AUTUMN, by GEORGY IVANOVICH CHULKOV    Poem Text                    
First Line: Purple autumn unloosened her tresses and flung them
Last Line: Weaving a wreath of thorns.
Variant Title(s): Autumnal Love
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Hearts; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The


QUAIL IN AUTUMN, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Autumn has turned the dark trees toward the hill
Subject(s): Autumn; Poetry & Poets; Quails; Seasons; Fall


QUAIL IN AUTUMN, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Autumn has turned the dark trees toward the hill
Last Line: A voice, a step, a swift sun-thrust of feather %and earth and air come properly together
Subject(s): Autumn; Poetry And Poets; Quails; Seasons


QUATRAINS: UNHAPPINESS, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: High on the hills the miser, autumn, sits
Last Line: In every wind that sweeps across the wold.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


RACCOON, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come, child, and see our pet raccoon
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


RADIAL WHEELS OF THE SEASON SPIKED WITH KNIVES, by CHARLES TOMLINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That autumn has now invaded with this crop
Subject(s): Autumn; Riddles; Seasons; Thistles


RAIN, by EDWARD A. DOUGHERTY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Autumn here sounds the same
Last Line: Only their dark regulation %will be left. Only that
Subject(s): Autumn; Rain; Seasons


RAKING THE LEAVES, by JOHN CASSELS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here it is, autumn again
Last Line: Your little immaculate piles %into blivion
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons


REALITY OF AUTUMN, by DUANE NIATUM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In my season as red as the red-breasted
Last Line: To mold the dark to the dark
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


RED HEADED WOMEN OF AUTUMN, by KATE BRAVERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now the henna, the burgundies and clarets
Last Line: If this is all I learned in fifty years %it was enough
Variant Title(s): Acts Of Autumn #
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


REFLECTION IN AUTUMN, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now autumn's come, adieu the pleasing greens
Last Line: Die with the leaves - nor taste that wintry strife %when sorrows urge - and fear impedes the fall
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


REMEMBERED SONGS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked an autumn lane, and ne'er a tune
Last Line: Soft songs on hearts that loved us, long before?
Subject(s): Autumn; June; Seasons; Silence; Singing & Singers; Fall; Songs


RESTLESS, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is but my restless self: the sun
Last Line: And reaches up his arms to have the moon!
Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill
Subject(s): Asia; Autumn; Earth; Ethiopia; Ganges River, India; Mississippi; Seasons; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Fall; World


RETURN, by GLADYS VERVILLE DEANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: How pleasurable to have you here, my friend
Last Line: But I have never been away from you.
Subject(s): Autumn; Friendship; Reunions; Seasons; Fall


RETURN, by FLORENCE POWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The frosts web the morning: a deer, his
Last Line: Hastening ... Toward ... His death?
Subject(s): Autumn; Deer; Seasons; Fall


RETURN TO EDEN, by EDITH GRAHAM MIRICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Remembering how, through all the valiant woe
Last Line: Love, and her wisdom, only, have been ours.
Subject(s): Autumn; Eden; Love; Seasons; Wisdom; Fall


RETURNING BLUEBIRDS, by NANCY E. KEAHEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the autumn days are hazy
Last Line: And summer nest with soft snow fills.
Subject(s): Autumn; Birds; Bluebirds; Seasons; Fall


RHENISH AUTUMN; TO TOUSSAINT LUCA, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The children of the dead are going to play / in the graveyard
Last Line: Was the color of the autumn chestnuts
Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina
Subject(s): Autumn; Children; Death; Mourning; Seasons; Fall; Childhood; Dead, The; Bereavement


RICE-PLANTING SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When autumn comes
Last Line: Must think the hills on fire
Subject(s): Autumn; Rice; Seasons


RICH DAYS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome to you rich autumn days
Last Line: Into the loneliest lanes we know.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


RITES, by NEAL BOWERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bound to a backyard maple
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Trees


ROADS, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know a country laced with roads
Last Line: To the opaline gates of the castles of dream.
Subject(s): Autumn; Roads; Seasons; Fall; Paths; Trails


RUTH, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She stood breast high amid the corn
Last Line: Share my harvest and my home.
Subject(s): Autumn; Beauty; Jews; Love; Ruth (bible); Seasons; Women In The Bible; Youth; Fall; Judaism


SAD DOMAIN, by STUART MERRILL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The autumn months are my domain
Last Line: Of not being able to be king
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


SALUTATION, LATE AUTUMN, 1991, by SAM HAMILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is late afternoon, the beginning
Last Line: What I love most, I have given away
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Solitude


SATURNINE AUTUMN, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Harsh autumn hides in the eden hues of / spring
Last Line: Far-off, saturnine autumn stumbling on.
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Fall


SEASONS: AUTUMN, by JOHANN CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The myths of separation from the earth
Last Line: As irreproachable as it is bright
Alternate Author Name(s): Holderlin, J. C. F.; Holderlin, Friedrich
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


SEED-TIME, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flowers of the willow-herb are wool
Last Line: Know you the breast of the springing to-be.
Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Seasons; Fall


SEPTEMBER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The goldenrod is yellow
Last Line: And autumn's best of cheer
Subject(s): Autumn;seasons; Fall


SEPTEMBER, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wind and the robin's note today
Last Line: In robes of wisdom's wearing.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; September; Fall


SEPTEMBER, by MARCELLA P. FRANK    Poem Text                    
First Line: A robin sang as lustily today
Last Line: April's sun and shower in september?
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Spring; Fall


SEPTEMBER, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The golden-rod is yellow
Last Line: I can never forget.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt
Subject(s): Autumn; Memory; Seasons; September; Fall


SEPTEMBER, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer days an-ending
Last Line: A month of sweet delight.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; September; Fall


SEPTEMBER, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Golden in the garden
Last Line: September's going by!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; September; Weather; Fall


SEPTEMBER / INNOKENTY ANNENSKY, by STEPHEN BERG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gardens are a dull gold
Last Line: Are excited by the cunty smells of autumn
Subject(s): Annensky, Innokenty (1856-1909); Autumn; Seasons


SEPTEMBER LAMENT, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The leaves turn brown and fall, turn brown and fall
Last Line: And that is all
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


SEPTEMBER, 1819 (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sylvan slopes with corn-clad fields
Last Line: These choristers confide.
Variant Title(s): Autumn
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


SEPTEMBER, 1868, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An april burst of beauty
Last Line: The glory of the year.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


SETTING SUN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear john, the sun is setting now
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


SHE DREAMS OF AUTUMN, by EDWARD HEYMAN PFEIFFER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I dreamed that the children were gathering leaves
Last Line: Down. . . .
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


SHINING WEB, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A hungry spider made a web
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


SHRODON FEAR: THE REST O'T, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An' after that we met wi' zome
Last Line: Behind, a-kickèn o' the stwones.
Subject(s): Autumn; Festivals; Flirtation; Food & Eating; Seasons; Fall; Fairs; Pageants


SHRODON FEAR: THE VU'ST PEART, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An' zoo's the day wer warm an' bright
Last Line: He didden even zweal the crown.
Subject(s): Autumn; Dancing & Dancers; Festivals; Magic; Seasons; Vanity; Fall; Fairs; Pageants


SIC TRANSIT, by KATHARINE WILLIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: As fall the sere leaves from the tree
Last Line: Seeds will find roots and flowers grow!
Subject(s): Autumn; Dreams; Flowers; Seasons; Trees; Fall; Nightmares


SIGHTINGS, by LUISA IGLORIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In our language %there is no word
Last Line: Flickers and %is gone
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


SINGING PINES, by GRACE CAROLINE SISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The autumn winds are calling me to leave my cares today
Last Line: A harmony of minor mode, a melody divine?
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Wind; Fall


SKINNED YELLOW FALL, by KATE BRAVERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come at me fall
Last Line: Dark things with a taste %for absinthe and amber
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


SLIGHTEST OF WINDS, by LUCIO MARIANI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Women die in autumn, in a hush
Last Line: Of grief. The slightest of winds is enough
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Seasons; Wind; Women


SNAKE IN AUTUMN, by JEFFERY BEAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: I could have stood there
Last Line: Coiling and un- %coiling
Subject(s): Animals; Autumn; Seasons; Snakes


SNOW FALL, by JOANNE KYGER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On green leaves %eye is twitching quite dreadfully
Last Line: And pity I have in my heart
Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs.
Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Loss; Seasons


SO COMES THE SUMMER'S CLOSE, by JEAN LANGILLE RUTHERFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is a sullen day / a day of mist and
Last Line: That promise snow.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; September; Fall


SO IT'S TODAY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And in the chokecherry this year
Last Line: For a few more days of summer.
Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Gifts & Giving; Leaves; Longevity; Seasons; Summer; Time; Fall


SONG, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When love came first to earth, the spring
Last Line: That likes all times and seasons.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Spring; Fall


SONG, by RICHARD WATSON DIXON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The feathers of the willow
Last Line: The robin pipeth now.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Transience; Fall; Impermanence


SONG AT THE BEGINNING OF AUTUMN, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis            
First Line: Now watch this autumn that arrives
Last Line: When I said autumn, autumn broke
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


SONG IN THE KEY OF AUTUMN, by SCUDDER MIDDLETON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are walking with the month
Last Line: Or laughter from a sunny face.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


SONG OF LATE SEPTEMBER, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In this irised net I keep
Last Line: And the moon's my golden ring.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


SONG OF THE AUTUMN WIND, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Autumn winds rise, white clouds fly
Last Line: How long does youth's prime last? - no hope against old age
Subject(s): Aging; Autumn; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts; Seasons; Transience


SONG-TIME, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From out the blossomed cherry-tops
Last Line: With empty heart and silent tongue.
Subject(s): Spring; Autumn; Aging; Fall


SONG: AUTUMN, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When nuts behind the hazel-leaf
Last Line: And flower of every harvest home.
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Fall


SONG: SO OFTEN, SO LONG I HAVE THOUGHT, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So often, so long I have thought of death
Last Line: The october raindrops thickened and turned to snow
Subject(s): Autumn; Japan; Seasons; Fall; Japanese


SONG: SPRING, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When buds of palm do burst and spread
Last Line: Like dewy violets under the green.
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Spring; Fall


SONGS OF AUTUMN, by HILDA SCOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Autumn is come
Last Line: Else her moods would not so subtly follow mine.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE AUTUMN DAYS, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We bore him through the golden land
Last Line: Are dreaming of the spring.
Subject(s): Autumn; Corn; Day; Death; Farm Life; Grief; Harvest; Hope; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism


SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE AUTUMN NIGHTS, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O night, send up the harvest moon
Last Line: Till I am old no more.
Subject(s): Autumn; Corn; God; Grief; Night; Old Age; Seasons; Youth; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 54, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see the golden hunter go
Last Line: Is here upon my breast.
Subject(s): Pleiades (constellation); Autumn


SONNET, by M. WALTHALL JACKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have not seen that maples grieve the fall
Last Line: And do not know how lovely is their death.
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Fall


SONNET: 73, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: That time of year thou mayst in me behold
Last Line: To love that well which thou must leave ere long.
Variant Title(s): "that Time Of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold"";where Late The Sweet Birds Sang;sonnet #73;
Subject(s): Aging; Autumn; Conceit; Death; Labor & Laborers; Love - Marital; Old Age; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; Work; Workers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


SONNET: AUTUMN, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou comest, autumn, heralded by the rain
Last Line: Thine almoner, the wind, scatters the golden leaves!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


SONNET: COMPOSED IN AUTUMN, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With these dead leaves stripped from a withered tree
Last Line: Into that perfect peace which waits for all!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


SONNET: NOVEMBER, 1878, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sky is dim and silent; lost are mirth
Last Line: Tells of the hidden store of life below.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


SONNET: SEPTEMBER, 1880, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To still september comes a dream of joy
Last Line: Renewing earth by terror and by hope.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


SONNETS OF SEASONS: 3. AUTUMN, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I walk through silent showers of golden leaves
Last Line: Abandon earth's abode and seek a fairer home.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 10B, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I fancy the good fairies dressed in white
Last Line: Yet letting the white peep beyond the rim. --
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Autumn; Fairies; Flowers; Life; Seasons; Fall; Elves


SPIRIT OF THE SUNSET, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the aster wakes in the morning
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


SPRING AND AUTUMN, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God in his heart made autumn for the young
Last Line: Whose harvest is not for their gathering.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Spring; Fall


SPRING AND FALL: TO A YOUNG CHILD, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Margaret, are you grieving
Last Line: It is margaret you mourn for.
Variant Title(s): Spring And Fall
Subject(s): Autumn; Children; God; Grief; Holidays; Labor & Laborers; Mnemonics; Mourning; New Year; Seasons; Social Protest; Spring; Fall; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Work; Workers; Bereavement


SPRING FANTASIES: 4. HORN AND VIOLIN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the autumn, in the weather
Last Line: But the violin for spring.
Subject(s): Autumn; Eyes; Love; Seasons; Soul; Spring; Fall


SQUIRREL'S ARITHMETIC, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: High on the branch of a walnut-tree
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


SUMMER BEGINS TO HAVE THE LOOK, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Recalls to immortality
Subject(s): Summer; Autumn; Immortality


SUMMER IS GONE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My tidings for you: the stag bells
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


SUMMER'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT: AUTUMN, by THOMAS NASHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Autumn hath all the summer's fruitful treasure
Last Line: From winter, plague, and pestilence, good lord, deliver us!
Alternate Author Name(s): Nash, Thomas+(1)
Variant Title(s): Dirge Of The Satyrs And Wood Nymphs
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


SUNDAY BAY LOOKOUT CHECK UP, by JOANNE KYGER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A few party %boats looking for labor
Last Line: False pacific jungle makes no sound
Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs.
Subject(s): Autumn; Bicycles; Grief; Loss; Seasons


SUNSHINE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wish the beautiful sun would shine
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


SWING, by SARAT MUKHOPADHYAYA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The white cloud sways like laundry drying
Last Line: Their dusty feet once touch the ground %then aim at the sky
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Swings


TAKE HEART!, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day the stormy wind has blown
Last Line: To greet thee in immortal year!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Storms; Fall


TALL AMBROSIA, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among the signs of autumn I perceive
Last Line: For what old crime of theirs I do not gather
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Weeds; Fall


TANKA, by ELIZABETH HAYNES SANDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The beech leaves falling
Last Line: Of withered palsied fingers.
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Leaves; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The


THE APPROACH OF COLD WEATHER, by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One morn, what time the sickle 'gan to play
Last Line: "and ""autumn's"" name resounds his shades among."
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


THE AUTUMN OF MANY YEARS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a ruddy light, in a craggy
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


THE AUTUMN WIND, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The autumn wind is wild and free
Last Line: And screamed at every house in town
Subject(s): Wind; Autumn


THE BATTLE AUTUMN OF 1862, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The flags of war like storm-birds fly
Last Line: Ring peace and freedom in.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Autumn; Seasons; United States - History; Fall


THE BROKEN PROMISE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After the crisp of fall
Last Line: And a broken promise is their doom.
Subject(s): Autumn; Mountains; Fall; Dead, The; Nightmares; Human Race; Bedtime


THE BROOK: AUTUMN, by LAURA ABELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Scarlet dogwood berries bring
Last Line: In the pageant everywhere.
Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Seasons; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness


THE BURNING OF THE LEAVES, by LAURENCE BINYON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now is the time for the burning of the leaves
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


THE CITY [OF THE DEAD]., by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They do neither plight nor wed
Last Line: For the lie at ease and know that life is done.
Subject(s): Autumn; Cities; Death; Life; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Fall; Urban Life; Dead, The; Songs


THE COMING OF FALL, by SHEROD SANTOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a wedge of cranes
Subject(s): Autumn; Fall


THE CONSTELLATIONS OF AUTUMN, by ERIC PANKEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who oversees this congregation, this collect of caws, this clamor of rooks
Subject(s): Autumn; Constellations; Seasons; Fall


THE CRADLE LOGIC OF AUTUMN, by JAY WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each instant comes with a price, the blue-edged bill
Last Line: Its faith, what a cradled life finds emblematic
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


THE DEATH OF AUTUMN, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When reeds are dead and a straw to thatch the marshes
Last Line: Oh, autumn! Autumn! -- what is the spring to me?
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year
Last Line: So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers.
Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Melancholy; Seasons; Fall; Dejection


THE DELTA AUTUMN, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me an ebbing sunset of the fall
Last Line: Of that be my dreaming, under the fennel-crusted sand.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


THE ENDURING, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If the autumn ended
Last Line: Over the hill.
Subject(s): Autumn; Hope; Life; Seasons; Fall; Optimism


THE ETERNAL PLAY, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Third act of the eternal play!
Last Line: Hath still for us a stranger show.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Theater & Theaters; Fall; Stage Life


THE FALL, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The length o' days agean do shrink
Last Line: Feäce after feäce, an' smile by smile.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


THE FALL, by GEORGE EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is a fear for little men
Last Line: In reverse
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Fall


THE FALL OF THE LEAF, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grown tired of this rank summer's wealth
Last Line: Or pine upon the winter's crudity.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Winter; Fall


THE FALL OF THE LEAVES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down they come by millions
Last Line: Down alleys old of the outworn year.
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Fall


THE FALL OF THE YEAR, by EMIL BLEMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah! Who hath not joy of chill autumn's slow coming?
Last Line: But blossoms and sings in the teeth of the wind.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


THE FALL WIND, by JOHN STUART THOMSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wind has stalked adown the garden path
Last Line: Wing south or somewhere; mute, discouraged band.
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Storms; Wind; Fall


THE FALLING OF THE LEAVES, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Autumn is over the long leaves that love us
Last Line: With a kiss and a tear on thy on thy drooping brow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Autumn; Farewell


THE FARMER'S BOY: AUTUMN, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Again, the year's decline, midst storms and floods
Subject(s): Farm Life; Autumn; Weather; Disappointment; Agriculture; Farmers; Fall


THE FLUTE-PLAYER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once I saw her. 'twas long ago
Last Line: With a different sound must fall!
Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Flutes; Love; Rain; Roses; Seasons; Fall


THE FOOLISH ELM, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bold young autumn came riding along
Last Line: With a woman who trades with sin.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Autumn; Elm Trees; Nature; Seasons; Fall


THE FOREST, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heroic forest of legend and of dream
Last Line: Of red-haired centaur and white unicorn.
Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Life; Love; Nymphs; Seasons; Fall; Woods


THE GARDEN, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How kind, how secretly, the sun
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Autumn; Fall


THE GOLDEN FLOWER, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When advent dawns with lessening days
Last Line: Where blossoms never fade and fall!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


THE HARVEST MOON; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the harvest moon! On gilded vanes
Last Line: And pipings of the quail among the sheaves.
Subject(s): Autumn; Moon; Seasons; Fall


THE HEART UNBROKEN AND THE COURAGE FREE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is late autumn, the end of indian summer
Last Line: I look at them, they are the color of snow
Subject(s): Autumn; Eyes; Nature; Seasons; Fall


THE HEAT OF AUTUMN, by JANE HIRSHFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And calling it pleasure
Subject(s): Autumn; Fall


THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 69. AUTUMN IDLENESS, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This sunlight shames november where he grieves
Last Line: Nor know, for longing, that which I should do.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Autumn; Leisure; Seasons; Fall


THE HUNKERING, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: In october the red leaves going brown heap and
Subject(s): Autumn; Fall


THE JOYS OF THE ROAD, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the joys of the road are chiefly these
Last Line: For him who travels without a load.
Subject(s): Autumn; Roads; Seasons; Wandering & Wanderers; Youth; Fall; Paths; Trails; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE KING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They rode right out of the morning sun
Last Line: And autumn is here again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Autumn; Courts & Courtiers; Knights & Knighthood; Seasons; Fall


THE LAST AUTUMN, by HERMAN EUGENE KITTREDGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The leaves have left me desolate and old
Last Line: And lean within my gnarled arms again.
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Fall


THE LAST LEAF, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The trees throng thick above
Last Line: "yes: I forgot."
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


THE LAST OF AUTUMN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From cloudy shapes of trees that cluster the hills
Last Line: And cash upon his garden palisades.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Autumn; England; Landscape; Seasons; Fall; English


THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis the last rose of summer
Last Line: This bleak world alone?
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Grief; Roses; Seasons; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness


THE LAST WALK IN AUTUMN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er the bare woods, whose outstretched hands
Last Line: The hand he proffers all, and thank him for thy sake.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


THE LEAVES, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The first dead leaves of the year are down!
Last Line: Can the world end in a night?
Subject(s): Autumn; Fields; Leaves; Life; Seasons; Summer; Sun; Fall; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


THE LITTLE LEAF, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: And so, the little leaf flew far – o far
Last Line: And find where the little brook found the sea.
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Nature; October; Seasons; Wind; Fall


THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 58, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Half in a dream
Last Line: Grows fainter and fades away
Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Seasons; Time; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness


THE MAPLE TREE OVER THE WAY, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of the queen of the forest we sing
Last Line: Like the maple leaves over the way.
Subject(s): Autumn; Life; Maple Trees; Nature; Seasons; Fall


THE MEETING, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old coach-road through a common of furze
Last Line: And either went their way.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Travel; Fall; Journeys; Trips


THE MENACE OF AUTUMN, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Amber and yellow and russet, gold and red
Last Line: And wold and woodland lie, austere and bare.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Fall


THE MIST AND ALL, by DIXIE WILLSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I like the fall
Last Line: The mist and all.
Subject(s): Autumn; Mist; Seasons; Fall


THE OLD BUFFALO TRAIL, by ISABEL ANDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: On the old buffalo trail, I'm glad this autumn day
Last Line: O, buffalo trail, what legends and what marvels you could tell!
Subject(s): Autumn; Native Americans; Roads; Seasons; Fall; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Paths; Trails


THE OLD CHURCH TOWER, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old church tower and garden wall
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Evening; Autumn; Sunset; Twilight; Fall


THE OLYMPIAN IN AUTUMN, by GARRETT OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                    
First Line: The goddess stood among the falling leaves
Last Line: And did not hear the falling of the leaves.
Subject(s): Autumn; Goddesses & Gods; Leaves; Mythology; Seasons; Fall


THE PASSING OF AUTUMN, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sky has donned a mourning veil
Last Line: For nature's glories never die!
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Fall


THE PASSING OF THE BIRDS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From out the heart of an autumnal day
Last Line: Most fraught with sense of fetterless grace and glee.
Subject(s): Autumn; Birds; Heaven; Memory; Seasons; Fall; Paradise


THE PLOUGHMAN, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Clear the brown path, to meet his coulter's gleam!
Last Line: The sword has rescued what the ploughshare won!
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Plowing & Plowmen; Seasons; Fall


THE POET'S JOURNAL: AUTUMNAL DREAMS, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the maple turns to crimson
Last Line: In the autumns of the past!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Autumn; Dreams; Life; Past; Seasons; Fall; Nightmares


THE RAMBO-TREE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When autumn shakes the rambo-tree
Last Line: It's a long, sweet way across the orchard.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Autumn; Orchards; Seasons; Trees; Fall


THE REAPER, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: All through the blood-red autumn
Last Line: That the gleaner be glad in his gleaning.
Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John
Subject(s): Autumn; Farm Life; Seasons; Spring; Summer; Winter; Fall; Agriculture; Farmers


THE ROSE-BUSH IN AUTUMN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know, and the sunset-angel knows
Last Line: And the tints of its topmost spray!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Roses; Seasons; Fall


THE SATYRS AND THE FALL, by YANNIS PAPADIAMANTOPOULOS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yesterday, on a path deep in the woods
Last Line: Alternate whirled away the dying leaves.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moreas, Jean
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Fall


THE SEASONS, by THOMAS HOLCROFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ere the beard of thistle sails
Last Line: At harvest-home our catches roar.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


THE SEASONS: AUTUMN, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Crowned with the sickle, and the wheaten sheaf
Last Line: And let me never -- never stray from thee!
Subject(s): Animals; Autumn; Seasons; Fall


THE SERE OAK-LEAVES, by THOMAS WADE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do ye rustle in this vernal-wind
Last Line: Blight us with thoughts of winter and our graves!
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Fall


THE SNOWING OF THE PINES', by THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Softer than silence, stiller than still air
Last Line: The snow-flakes drop as lightly -- snows on snows.
Subject(s): Autumn; Holidays; Nature; Pine Trees; Seasons; Snow; Trees; Fall


THE SONG OF THE OLD LEAVES, by HILMA PARSONS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The autumn wind in a gust of joy
Last Line: "the lady of death is queen of the world!"
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Oak Trees; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The


THE TREE ACROSS THE ROAD, by ELIZABETH KELTY BEITEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: God never made a fairer thing!
Last Line: Of autumn, in the wood.
Subject(s): Autumn; God; Seasons; Spring; Trees; Fall


THE TREE'S DOUBLE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How beautiful the tree shadows lie on
Last Line: Dances upon the grass to the same measure.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Autumn; God; October; Seasons; Shadows; Trees; Fall


THE TREES WILL UNDERSTAND, by MATTIE RICHARDS TYLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: How still a house can be on such a night!
Last Line: For they and I have lost our all, my dear!
Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Houses; Seasons; Soul; Trees; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness


THE UNREAPED FIELD, by NIKOLAY ALEXEYEVICH NEKRASOV    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It grows late autumn, and the rooks are flown
Last Line: "ploughing and meditating as he ploughed."
Alternate Author Name(s): Nekrasov, N. A.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


THE VOICE OF AUTUMN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There comes, from yonder height
Last Line: And must leave.
Subject(s): Autumn; Fall


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: AUTUMN, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So now, then, summer's over - by degrees
Last Line: But wrinkles and red hair!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Autumn; Netherlands; Seasons; Travel; Fall; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WAY THE LEAVES KEEP FALLING, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is november
Subject(s): Leaves; Autumn; Fall


THE WEDDING OF THE SEASONS, by BESSIE SAUNDERS SPENCER    Poem Text                    
First Line: When autumn comes
Last Line: Is summer thus to autumn wed.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


THE WINDOW, by HILDA RIDLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: She opened wide the window, drew
Last Line: Its beauty challenged and consoled.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Windows; Fall


THE YELLOW LEAF, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The year is on the wane - the blue
Last Line: Visions, whose resting-place is heaven!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Autumn; Earth; Leaves; Nature; Seasons; Fall; World


THIEF, by IRENE F. PAWSEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Autumn wind came stealing
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


THINGS LOST IN AUTUMN, by PARK SONG'YONG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Nothing but dust
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


THIS AUTUMN NIGHT, by RUTH EVELYN REID    Poem Text                    
First Line: The year is turning, yet I...Yet I
Last Line: Watch glory flame to ash with stifled breath!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


THISTLEDOWN: 12. AUTUMN, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI    Poem Text                    
First Line: She kindles fires in every tree and bush
Last Line: Then autumn draws her gray hood close and dies.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


THOUGH BIRDS HAVE FLOWN, by BETTIE MARGOT CASSIE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now that the trees are stripped of all their fire
Last Line: Though birds have flown the trees still harbor nests.
Subject(s): Autumn; Birds; Dreams; Seasons; Trees; Fall; Nightmares


THREE PIECES ON THE SMOKE OF AUTUMN, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Smoke of autumn is on it all.
Subject(s): Autumn; Smoke; Fall


THRENODY, by JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The red leaves fall upon the lake
Last Line: Across the far and lonely place %that airplanes know
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


TIME OF CLEARER TWITTERINGS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time of crisp and tawny leaves
Last Line: In the thicket while he sings!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Autumn; Brooks; Harvest; Nature; Seasons; Fall; Streams; Creeks


TO A FALLEN TREE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: O thou grand monarch of the spacious wood
Last Line: For her dead kings; it is indeed thy due.
Subject(s): Autumn; Courts & Courtiers; Nature; Seasons; Trees; Fall


TO A MAPLE LEAF IN AUTUMN, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How like to man art thou!
Last Line: Oh, let me fade like thee!
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Leaves; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The


TO AUTUMN, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O autumn laden with fruit, and stained
Last Line: Hills fled from our sight; but left his golden load.
Subject(s): Autumn; Bible; Mythology; Seasons; Fall


TO AUTUMN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No more the glowing flowers of spring
Last Line: For ah! Too soon it melts away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


TO AUTUMN, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
Last Line: And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
Variant Title(s): Ode To Autumn
Subject(s): Autumn; Men; Nature; Seasons; War; Fall


TO AUTUMN, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I do not scorn your gay approach
Last Line: Your gloomy smile or your return
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


TO AUTUMN, by MARGARET RABB    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cayenne and tomatoes red clear through as though the sun split
Last Line: While we gather, lift, whistle together, a light wind aloft in the sinking skies
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


TO AUTUMN, NEAR HER DEPARTURE, by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou maid of gentle light!Thy straw-wove vest
Last Line: And from thy glance will catch th' inspired strain.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


TO BE CLOSELY WRITTEN ON A SMALL PIECE OF PAPER WHICH FOLDED INTO A TIGHT LOZENGE WILL FIT ANY GIRL', by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo the leaves
Subject(s): Leaves; Autumn; Fall


TO MY DAUGHTER IN A RED COAT, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Late october. It is afternoon.
Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Autumn; Fall


TONE PICTURES OF AUTUMN, by ELLA LOUISE LUICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: How I revel in the colors
Last Line: For the dying year's refrain.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


TOTEM, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Autumn; Fall


TOUT PASSE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more I watch the crystal stream
Last Line: The faces that are gone.
Subject(s): Autumn; Birds; Faces; Sea; Seasons; Fall; Ocean


TOWARD AN ORGANIC PHILOSOPHY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The glow of my campfire is dark red and flameless
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Spring; Fall


TOWARD AN ORGANIC PHILOSOPHY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The glow of my campfire is dark red and flameless
Last Line: And links the roll of a planet alike with the interests %of marmots and men'
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Spring


TREE AS A SHIP, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The tree in a sea of air
Last Line: And your vast age and bulk and excitement %wait
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


TREES IN AUTUMN, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Golden starred, lapped in silver brocade
Last Line: To each breeze that stirs.
Subject(s): Autumn; Eucalyptus Trees; Leaves; Plane Trees; Seasons; Willow Trees; Fall; Sycamores


TREES IN AUTUMN, by ROLF JACOBSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: --when the summer's gone out of them
Last Line: Defenseless. Now %we see through them
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Nature; Seasons; Weather


TRIFLES, by J. COLESWORTHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A raindrop is a little thing
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


TROPICAL AUTUMN, by STUART JOHN DYBEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The shell of a cicada %clinging to the screen
Last Line: It will take the cycle of a year %to tell when summer ends
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


TWENTY POEMS OF LOVE AND ONE POEM OF DESPAIR: 6, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember you as you were that final autumn
Last Line: Dry leaves of autumn were whirling in you soul
Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo
Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Seasons


TWO AUTUMN DAWNS: 1, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dawn creeps laggard now into the wood
Last Line: Each morning, as she comes into the wood.
Subject(s): Autumn; Dawn; Seasons; Fall; Sunrise


TWO AUTUMN DAWNS: 2, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The city is astir ere dawn has come
Last Line: The city is astir, ere dawn has come.
Subject(s): Autumn; Dawn; London; Seasons; Fall; Sunrise


TWO SONGS OF AUTUMN, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wind has whipped the willows bare
Last Line: To your deep unrest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Seasons; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness


TWO WISE OWLS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are two dusky owls, and we live in a tree
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


TZU-YEH SONG, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ch'ang-an - one slip of moon
Last Line: When will they put down the barbarians %and my good man come home from his far campaign?
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


UNREST IN AUTUMN, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside my window sighs the last lone rose
Last Line: Ah, god! Ah, god! And I am growing old.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Seasons; Winter; Fall


UNSEASONABLE SNOWS, by ALFRED AUSTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The leaves have not yet gone; then why do ye come
Last Line: While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Snow; Fall


UNTITLED, by PAUL L. ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Must there always be remorse %with october
Last Line: Even remorse dissolves into a door
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Wisconsin


VERSES FOR PICTURES: AUTUMN, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Laden autumn here I stand
Last Line: Speak the word that sets me free.
Variant Title(s): The Seasons: Autumn
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


VESTAL, by GLADYS VERVILLE DEANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Child of november, you were born to death
Last Line: See, child, there is no fear when flame's within.
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Dusk; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The


VIOLIN SONGS: AUTUMN SONG, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Autumn clouds are flying, flying
Last Line: Burns to hues of spring.
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Nature; Seasons; Spring; Fall; Dead, The


VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 3: SATIRE: 5, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fie on all courtesie, and vnrulie windes
Last Line: But waxen crowns well gree with borowed haires.
Variant Title(s): The Coxcomb
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Wind; Fall


VOGUE, by CORA FREAR HAWKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Summer dons a flowered hat, with dress in rosy tints
Last Line: While spring, hair blowing in the wind, wears flower- sprigged chintz.
Subject(s): Autumn; Clothing & Dress; Seasons; Summer; Fall


W 40, by SIMON PERCHIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Even in the womb these leaves
Last Line: Held out for rain and burial
Subject(s): Autumn; Birth; Death; Seasons


WANDERING OF THE BIRDS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Autumn has come, so bare and gray
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


WATER TABLE, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How shy the attraction / of simple rain to the east wind
Last Line: To write his name
Subject(s): Autumn; Brooks; Mines & Miners; Mountains; Nature; Seasons; September; Water; Fall; Streams; Creeks; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


WE SEE, WHEN AUTUMN COMES, by FRANCIS JAMMES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When autumn comes, we see on the telegraph wires
Last Line: Tries, pauses, and, ere leaving, turns once more.
Subject(s): Autumn; Cold; Seasons; Fall


WELCOME TO OCTOBER, 1867, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hail and bless thy presence, month most dear
Last Line: Canst with soft magic charm life's weary hours.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; October; Seasons; Fall


WHAT I CAN DO FOR THIS AUTUMN, by HONG YUNSUK    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And cordially meet the winter's visit
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


WHAT'S NEXT, by FREDERICK SEIDEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So the sun is shining blindingly but I can sort of see.
Subject(s): Autumn; Transience; Fall; Impermanence


WHEN AUTUMN CAME, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the way that autumn came to the trees:
Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad
Subject(s): Autumn; Fall


WHEN AUTUMN COMES, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When autumn comes, across the years
Last Line: When autumn comes.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


WHEN AUTUMN IS A-COMIN' IN, by IRENE ZIMMERMAN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Give long-range forecasts of the weather %through thicknesses of fur or feather
Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Seasons


WHEN SLOW OCTOBER CHANGES COLOR, by UMBERTO PIERSANTI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's like the sweet must that wasps
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUNKIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock
Last Line: When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Autumn; Hope; Nature; Seasons; Fall; Optimism


WHEN THE LEAVES FALL, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The leaves fall slowly from the trees
Last Line: Is an apache of a wind.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


WILD RABBITS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Among the sand-hills
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


WIND, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: What is the wind, mamma?
Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons


WIND AND WATER, by MIAO YIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A steady wind scours the autumn moon
Last Line: Why, then, does karma yet coil and bind?
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Wind; Zen Buddhism


WIND HOWLING THROUGH THE PINES, by MINAMOTO TOSHIYORI    Poem Source                    
Last Line: In a hamlet by the tama river
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


WINDOW CLOSED, by ERNEST WICHNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The window closed. With august over
Last Line: O, elsewhere - to confirm again
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


WINDOW, AUTUMN, by WILLIAM REICHARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Outside, she rakes maple leaves into loose piles, stakes burlap and wire
Last Line: Into the deep ditch, snaps down brown milkweed
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons


WINTER OVERTURE, by LUCY KENT    Poem Source                    
First Line: We walk into the wide embrace
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


WINTER ROADS, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the spring thaw
Last Line: Looking for winter
Subject(s): Autumn; Roads; Seasons; Spring; Winter; Fall; Paths; Trails


WINTER SUN, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is noon. A park
Last Line: Licking the almost deaf %and greenish stone
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Autumn; Old Age; Seasons; Trees


WINTER'S APPRENTICE, by JESSICA HORNIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The leaves seem to be hanging on okay, still green
Last Line: Like subtleties slipping by not quite unnoticed
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Trees; Winter


WITHERING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fade tender lily
Last Line: Back to pleasant spring.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Autumn
Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Flowers; Seasons; Fall


WOODBINES IN OCTOBER, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As dyed in blood the streaming vines appear
Last Line: And poured its treasure out upon the leaves.
Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme.
Subject(s): Vines & Vinyards; Autumn; Fall


WOODCRAFT, by VICTORIA MARY SACKVILLE-WEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Their past is sure
Last Line: To vex the pigeon and to scare the jay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Nicholson, Harold, Mrs.; Sackville-west, Vita
Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Seasons; Fall; Woods


WOODCUT, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is autumn but early. No crow cries from the dry woods
Last Line: Those trained to it see signs of they say god
Subject(s): Autumn; God; Seasons; Soul; Fall


WRITTEN IN AUTUMN, by MARY TIGHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O autumn! How I love thy pensive air
Last Line: Throbs with vain pangs, here will I love to rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blachford, Mary
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


WRITTEN IN EARLY AUTUMN AT THE POOL OF SPRINKLING WATER, by CHAO-TI OF HAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: In autumn, when the landscape is clear
Last Line: And amy lowell
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


WUTONG, by ZHENG YUNDUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: To the wutong leaves autumn first arrives
Last Line: I sit long in the night, listening to autumn's sound
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


X, by TICO CROES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sound of dry leaves
Last Line: Buoyed by a grand smiling moon
Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Night; Seasons


YOLKI FLOWERS AT TEL HAZIKA, by ELISHA PORAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: That autumn, when their time came
Last Line: Soured from forgotten blood?
Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Seasons