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| Searching... Subject: FALL Matches Found: 672 1X1 (ONE TIMES ONE): 20, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What if a much of a which of a wind Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Judgment Day; War; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man A CORYMBUS FOR AUTUMN, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text 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'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'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 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 KNOCK ON THE DOOR, by JAMES TATE Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: They ask me if I've ever thought Subject(s): Earth; Judgment Day; World; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man 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'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 LYKE-WAKE DIRGE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "this ae nighte [night], this ae nighte [night]" Last Line: And christ receive thy saule [soul] Variant Title(s): The Cleveland Lyke Wake Dirge Subject(s): Death;judgment Day;wakes; "dead, The;end Of The World;doomsday;fall Of Man; 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'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'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'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'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 STORY OF DOOM: BOOK 1, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Niloiya said to noah, what aileth thee Last Line: Shall have no let of me, to do its will.' Subject(s): Arks; Floods; God; Judgment Day; Noah (bible); End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man A SWIMMER'S DREAM, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text 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 TINKLE OF BELLS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The light of the moon on the white Last Line: Sheer into the judgment day! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bells; Judgment Day; Moon; Snow; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man A VAGABOND SONG, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text 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 AD ASTRA: 131, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O baleful lure, to lead our feet astray! Last Line: Strong in whose strength man may think scorn of fate! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Judgment Day; Religion; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology ADVICE TO A PROPHET, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city Last Line: When the bronze annals of the oak-tree close. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Christianity; Environment; Judgment Day; Messiah; Nuclear War; Religion; Sea Monsters; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Theology; S 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'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 ALL HALLOW'S EVE, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text 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 SOULS, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Text 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 ALONE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I do when I stand in my place Last Line: And I stand at god's judgment alone! Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man 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'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'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'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'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'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'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 RELUCTANCE, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Text 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 APOCALYPSE, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all sixty of us I am the only one who went Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man APOLOGY, by CAROL FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Already the land is starting to forget gardens Variant Title(s): Autumn Apology Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall 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 AUTOMNE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text 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'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'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 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 ALICE CARY Poem Text 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 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 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'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'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 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'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 PHILIP LARKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The air deals blows: surely too hard, too often? Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall 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'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 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 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 LINDA PASTAN Poem Text 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 JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text 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 SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text 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 LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text 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 ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text 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 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's Biography First Line: Long lines of coral light Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall 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'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's Biography First Line: Autumn is always too early. Subject(s): Autumn; Fall AUTUMN (1), by JOHN CLARE Poem Text 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'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'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'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 AND DEATH, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are coy, these sisters, autumn and death Subject(s): Autumn; Religion; Seasons; Fall; Theology 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 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 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 BIRDS, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text 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 COLORS (1), by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text 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'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 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 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 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'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'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 EVEN-SONG, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text 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's Biography First Line: The yellow pears hang in the lake. Subject(s): Autumn; Fall AUTUMN EVENING, by FEODOR (FYODOR) IVANOVICH TYUTCHEV Poem Text 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 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 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 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 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'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 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 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'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 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 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'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 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'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 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 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 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 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'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 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 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 JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text 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 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 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'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'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's Biography First Line: Ere, in the northern gale Last Line: And waste its little hour. Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Seasons; Fall; Woods AUTUMN [OR, NOVEMBER DAYS], by JOHN CLARE Poem Text 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 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. THE THIRD PASTORAL, ORHYLAS AND AEGON, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text 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: A DIRGE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text 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'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 ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale amber sunlight falls across Last Line: Beneath the drear november trees. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall 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 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 BALDUR THE BEAUTIFUL: THE DEATH OF BALDUR, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long aeons past, ere yet was count of time Last Line: The Æsir's shout still thundered down the dark. Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Heaven; Judgment Day; Mythology; Odin (norse God); Dead, The; Paradise; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man BAVARIAN GENTIANS, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poem Explanation 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'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 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 BILLY AND HIS DRUM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! It's come, kids, come! Last Line: Ef you don't hear little billy an' his big bass drum! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Drums; Judgment Day; Musical Instruments; Noises; Childhood; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man BITTER FOR SWEET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text 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 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 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 CARN A-TURNEN YOLLER, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text 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 CELESTE: 10. LOVE IN AUTUMN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text 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 CHRIST'S COMING, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: The peoples long have waited Last Line: Exalt his holy name! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Judgment Day; Justice; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man CLEAR AUTUMN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This small flat clearing is not Last Line: Brilliant under a gauze of light Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall COMPANY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought, 'how terrible, if I were seen Last Line: "I thought, ""why should I, if the rest are so?" Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): God; Judgment Day; Sin; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man COMPLEX AUTUMNAL, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text 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 CONCLUSION, by LESLIE NELSON JENNINGS Poem Text First Line: There is an ending, even to these things Last Line: More graciously before our hearts were broken? Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man CONTRA MORTEM: THE FALL, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text 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 CORNUCOPIA, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The naked cornucpoia of autumn fields Subject(s): Autumn; Fall 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 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'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'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 DIES IRAE, by ABRAHAM COLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day of wrath, that day of burning Last Line: Spare, lord, in that hour of terror! Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man DIES IRAE, by THOMAS OF CELANO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day of vengeance, without morrow! Last Line: Save him, god! From condemnation! Variant Title(s): The Day Of Judgment Subject(s): Consolation; Judgment Day; Religion; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology DIES IRAE DIES ILLA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "hears't thou, my soul, what serious things" Last Line: "my hope, my fear! My judge, my friend! / take charge of me, and of my end" Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World;doomsday;fall Of Man 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'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 DOOMES-DAY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let not that day gods friends and servants scare Last Line: The bench is then their place; and not the barre. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man DOOMSDAY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I can raise one ghost, why I will raise Last Line: . . . . . . . Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Judgment Day; Longing; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man DOOMSDAY, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The end of everything approaches Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man DOST THOU DENY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Dost thou deny the virgin birth? Last Line: When thou shalt face christ's judgment seat. Subject(s): Devil; Judgment Day; Religion; Sin; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology DRY AUTUMN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text 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 EARLY AUTUMN, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source 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'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 END OF THE WORLD, by GEORGE ELLISTON Poem Text First Line: Once I knew that the end of the world Last Line: Who measure time by years. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man END OF THE WORLD, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a weeping in the world Last Line: Whereby we too must die. Subject(s): Bible; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man ENGLAND'S ALFRED ABROAD, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wrong? Are they wrong? Of course they are Last Line: And the 'bus to cimiez. Subject(s): Austin, Alfred (1835-1913); Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man EPILOGUE, by MAXWELL ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: Children of dust, astray among the suns Last Line: To mix our dust with dust of slaves and kings. Subject(s): Death; Dust; Judgment Day; Life; Time; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man EPISTLE TO DR. YOUNG UPON HIS POEM ON THE LAST DAY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now let the atheist tremble, thou alone Last Line: And practise o'er the angel in the man. Subject(s): Advice; Atheism; Future Life; God; Judgment Day; Poetry & Poets; Regret; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man 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 EVERYTHING THAT ACTS IS ACTUAL, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the tawny light Subject(s): Autumn; Imagination; Relationships; Truth; Fall; Fancy FACING INTO IT; FOR LARRY LEVIS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text 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'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 MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The black oaks Subject(s): Oak Trees; Autumn; Fall 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 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'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 FAREWELL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tie the strings to my life, my lord, / then I am ready to go! Last Line: Now I am ready to go! Subject(s): Christianity; Judgment Day; Prayer; Reformation; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man 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 FINAL AUTUMN, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Maple leaves turn black in the courtyard. Subject(s): Autumn; Fall FIRE AND ICE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Some say the world will end in fire, / some say in ice Last Line: And would suffice. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Fire; Hate; Ice; Judgment Day; Men; Time; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man FIRST WIND OF AUTUMN, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a wind blowing Subject(s): Wind; Autumn; Fall FONTAINEBLEAU (AUTUMN), by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text 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's Biography First Line: The persian's flowery gifts, the shrine Last Line: The early and the latter rain! Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall FORMULA, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: I saw the flesh that made the lover burn Last Line: X equals a—and so, he is destroyed. Subject(s): Heaven; Judgment Day; Paradise; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man FOUR SONGS OF FOUR SEASONS: 4. AUTUMN IN CORNWALL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text 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 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'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's Biography First Line: Spades take up leaves Last Line: The harvest shall stop? Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Fall GENERAL LEW WALLACE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text 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 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 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'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 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 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 GOOD-NIGHT, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You linger when you say good-night Last Line: Or only on the day of days?' Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Fear; Judgment Day; Dead, The; Parting; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man 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 HARVEST MOON, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text 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'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'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 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 HOJOKI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Venus in the pale green sky Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Spring; Summer; Winter; Fall HOLY SONNET: 7, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Last Line: As if thou hadst sealed my pardon, with thy blood. Variant Title(s): "blow Your Trumpets, Angels;'teach Me How To Repent';holy Sonnet: 165;holy Sonnets: 4;""at The Round Earth's Imagined Corners, Blow""; Subject(s): Angels; Bible; Christianity; Death; Immortality; Judgment Day; Religion; Repentance; Salvation; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology; Penitence HOW THE LEAVES CAME DOWN, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY Poem Text 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'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 HYMN CONCERNING THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT, by THOMASIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a thief, who falls at midnight on his unsuspecting prey Last Line: When the master comes, to meet him, bearing with you lamps that burn. Alternate Author Name(s): Thomasius, Christia Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man 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 ILICET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is an end of joy and sorrow Last Line: The poppied sleep, the end of all Subject(s): Death; Grief; Judgment Day; Sleep; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man IMMORTAL AUTUMN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Text 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 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'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'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 ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text 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 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'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 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'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'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 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'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's Biography First Line: What the birds say Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Fall IT ROLLS ON, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text 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 JUDGEMENT, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Almighty judge, how shall poor wretches brook Last Line: There thou shalt finde my faults are thine. Subject(s): Judges; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man JUDGEMENT, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, my day, yet ere thou art quite departed Last Line: Thou who art christ, christ who is more than thou. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man JUDGMENT, by FERNAND MAZADE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night the true god lists your every crime Last Line: And the true god—I see it all—will pardon you. Subject(s): God; Judgment Day; Religion; Sin; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology JUDGMENT DAY, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Every day is judgment day Last Line: Sorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Judgment Day; Religion; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology JUDGMENT DAY, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When through our bodies our two spirits / burn Last Line: Irked by long shadows, mocked by those bright far tones. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man JUNE LEAVES AND AUTUMN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text 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 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 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 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'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 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's Biography First Line: The prisoners of infinite choice Subject(s): Leaves; Autumn; Fall LEAVES, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Text 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'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 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 LETTER IN NOVEMBER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text 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 LMFBR, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death himself, / (liquid metal fast breeder reactor) Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man 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 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'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 LWONESOMENESS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text 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'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 MAPLE AND SUMACH, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text 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'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 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 MEAPLE LEAVES BE YOLLOW, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text 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 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 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 NO AUTUMN IN MY COUNTRY, by MEENA ALEXANDER Poem Text 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 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 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'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'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 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 COTTON FLOWER, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Text 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 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 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 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'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'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'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 - 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 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: 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 EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text 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'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 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'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 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 AUTUMN, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text 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 ETHNIC DEFINITIONS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the jewish cemetery in prague Last Line: With a sigh, they'll at last lie down. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Ghosts; Judgment Day; Supernatural; Graveyards; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man ON THE APPROACH OF AUTUMN, by AMELIA OPIE Poem Text 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 ON THOSE THAT DESERVE IT, by FRANCIS QUARLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O when our clergy, at the dreadful day Last Line: Durst ye not stoop to play the fools for him? Subject(s): Clergy; Judgment Day; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man ONCE BY THE PACIFIC, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shattered water made a misty din Last Line: "before god's last ""put out the light"" was spoken." Subject(s): Judgment Day; Pacific Ocean; Seashore; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Beach; Coast; Shore 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 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'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'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'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'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'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'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 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 PLANTING MORNING GLORIES IN OCTOBER, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black-seed sputter, peppercorns Subject(s): Morning Glories; Autumn; Fall 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 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 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'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 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's Biography First Line: Autumn has turned the dark trees toward the hill Subject(s): Autumn; Poetry & Poets; Quails; Seasons; Fall 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 RECOMPENSE, by JESSE M. BALL ALLEN Poem Text First Line: When sound shall cease, there being none to hear Last Line: Not failure, not defeat, but consummation! Subject(s): Future Life; God; Judgment Day; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man 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 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 RICH DAYS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text 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 ROADS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text 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 ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 3. RESURRECTION, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trumpet's wild echo fills the skies Last Line: And hell for the goats is selected. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Jesus Christ; Judgment Day; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man RUTH, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text 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 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 SEED-TIME, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text 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'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, 1819 (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text 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 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 SHRODON FEAR: THE REST O'T, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text 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'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 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 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'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'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 THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, how hard it is to find Last Line: "that's sweet -- even when we sigh ""wo's me!" Subject(s): Love – Nature Of; Fall SONG, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drink ye to her that each loves best Last Line: As she would love to hear. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Love; Fall SONG, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When napoleon was flying Last Line: Wept when all their tears were dried. Subject(s): Battle Of Waterloo; Death; Mourning; Fall SONG, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To love in my heart, I exclaimed, t'other morning Last Line: Beauty, look not so killingly sweetly. Subject(s): Love – Age Differences; Time; Fall SONG, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Withdraw not yet those lips and fingers Last Line: But not together, -- no, no, no! Subject(s): Transience; Love; 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 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-TIME, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text 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'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'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'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 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'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 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 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'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'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'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 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'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 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 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'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 TESTIMONY OF HANDS, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is every day the judgment day? Last Line: The hand that plies eternity! Subject(s): Future Life; Judgment Day; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man 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's Biography First Line: In a ruddy light, in a craggy Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall THE BATTLE AUTUMN OF 1862, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text 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 BOOK OF THE DEAD: HE APPROACHETH THE HALL OF JUDGMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o my heart, my mother, my heart, my mother" Last Line: "yea, millions-of-years, o my mother, my heart!" Subject(s): Judgment Day;mythology - Egyptian; End Of The World;doomsday;fall Of Man 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'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's Biography First Line: Like a wedge of cranes Subject(s): Autumn; Fall THE CONSTELLATIONS OF AUTUMN, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Text 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'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 CRY OF JOB, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, thou lovest the heart that's pure Last Line: Come with thy judgment day to me! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Bible; God; Job (bible); Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: With a whirl of thought oppressed Last Line: I damn such fools! -- go, go, you're bit.' Variant Title(s): On The Day Of Judgement Subject(s): Bible; Hate; Judgment Day; Religion; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O day of life, of light, of love Last Line: Make all things new! And without end! Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT; AN ODE ATTEMPTED IN ENGLISH SAPPHIC, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the fierce north-wind with his airy forces Last Line: Shout the redeemer. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE DAY OF JUDGMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Asunder shall the clouds be rolled Last Line: With vanished light like dead men's eyes Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World;doomsday;fall Of Man THE DEATH OF AUTUMN, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text 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 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 DOOM OF YS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you hear the bell? 'tis a silver chime Last Line: It rings o'er the town that the deep sea hides!' Subject(s): Judgment Day; Sin; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE END OF THE WORLD, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Comrades! The end of the world's at hand! Last Line: For the end of the world is here. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE END OF THE WORLD, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The snow had fallen many nights and days Last Line: "he can stay with me while I do not lift them." Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE END OF THE WORLD, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quite unexpectedly as vasserot Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Circus; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE END OF THE WORLD, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The end of the world: it was given to me to see it Last Line: Postpones the end of the world: in which we live forever Subject(s): God; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man 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 EPITAPH ENDING IN AND, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the last storm, when hawks Subject(s): Judgment Day; Millenium; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE ETERNAL JUSTICE, by ANNE REEVE ALDRICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god that god shall judge my soul, not man! Last Line: All's well with thee if thou art in just hands. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man 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'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'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 FARMER'S BOY: AUTUMN, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Poem Text 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 FIFTEEN DAYS OF JUDGEMENT, by SEBASTIAN EVANS Poem Text First Line: Then there shall be signs in heaven Last Line: Mark yon shadow on the dial! Subject(s): God; Heaven; Judgment Day; Ruins; Storms; Paradise; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE FINAL CONFLAGRATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "verily, verily that day shall come" Last Line: "this done, who shattered all, shall all restore" Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World;doomsday;fall Of Man THE FIRST BOOK OF URIZEN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of the primeval priest's assum'd power Last Line: 9. And the salt ocean rolled englob'd Variant Title(s): The Book Of Urizen Subject(s): Bible; Creation; Judgment Day; Mythology; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man 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'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 FUNDAMENTAL PROJECT OF TECHNOLOGY, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under glass: glass dishes which changed Last Line: To look back and say, a flash, a white flash sparkled. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Judgment Day; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE GARDEN, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Text 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's Biography First Line: When advent dawns with lessening days Last Line: Where blossoms never fade and fall! Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall THE GREAT GREY KING, 1800-1900, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: The great grey king, the lastest and best of his line, spake thus Last Line: In the silent fields with his peers; and another reigned in his stead. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Judgment Day; Spiritual Life; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE HARVEST MOON; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text 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'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'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'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 Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: In october the red leaves going brown heap and Subject(s): Autumn; Fall THE HYPOCRITES REWARD, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When came his final judgment Last Line: He wore them in god's name. Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE INEVITABLE. SURAT: 59, by KORAN Poem Text First Line: When the day of wrath and mercy cometh, none shall doubt it come Last Line: "oh, ""companions of the right hand!"" oh! Ye others who were wise!" Alternate Author Name(s): Quran Subject(s): Heaven; Islam; Judgment Day; Paradise; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man 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 JUDGE-MENT DAY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God hides from man the reck'ning day, that he Last Line: Expect the coming of it ev'ry day. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE JUDGEMENT, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! The judgment trump has blown Last Line: In one flood of viewless flame. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE JUDGEMENT DAY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In doing justice, god shall then be known Last Line: Who shewing mercy here, few priz'd, or none. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE KING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text 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'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'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'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'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 MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burdened air Last Line: For every thing that lives is holy Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Judgment Day; Mythology; Vision; Fancy; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE MEETING, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text 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 MILLENNIUM, by IDA TEEPLE WITTENBERGER Poem Text First Line: The armaments and power of kings Last Line: In chains in deepest hell! Subject(s): Judgment Day; Peace; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man 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'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 OLD MEETING HOUSE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Its quiet graves were made for peace till gabriel blows his horn Last Line: While the old cracked bell to southward shook the ancient meeting house. Subject(s): Bells; Gabriel; Graves; Judgment Day; Names; Peace; Public Meetings; Tombs; Tombstones; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man 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'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'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 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 SECOND COMING, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Turning and turning in the widening gyre Last Line: Slouches towards bethlehem to be born? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Chaos; Easter; History; Holidays; Imagination; Judgment Day; Men; Millenium; Religion; Vision; War; The Resurrection; Historians; Fancy; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology 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 SUMME, AND THE THE SATISFACTION, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I drew up mine account Last Line: By law, the bond once cancelled. Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man 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 TRUMPET CALL (1), by DMITRY SERGEYEVICH MEREZHKOVSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over earth awakes a whirring Last Line: "glad or grieving, thou shalt rise." Alternate Author Name(s): Merezhovski, Dmitri Subject(s): Christianity; Judgment Day; Trumpets; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man 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 VISION, by WILLIAM TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: We met, a hundred of us met Last Line: Flew up and kicked the beam. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Facades; Judgment Day; Religion; Vision; Appearances; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology THE VOICE OF AUTUMN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text 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'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'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 WHEAT AND THE TARES, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Satan hath with devil's cunning Last Line: Tares are tares, and wheat is wheat. Subject(s): Judgment Day; Judgments; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man 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 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's Biography First Line: Smoke of autumn is on it all. Subject(s): Autumn; Smoke; Fall TIME OF CLEARER TWITTERINGS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text 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 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'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'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, 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's Biography First Line: Lo the leaves Subject(s): Leaves; Autumn; Fall TO HAYDN, by THOMAS HOLCROFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is the mighty master that can trace / the eternal lineaments of nature's fac Last Line: And consonance sublime amid confusion hears. Subject(s): Fights; Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809); Judgment Day; Thunder; War; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man TO MY DAUGHTER IN A RED COAT, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Text 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'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's Biography First Line: The glow of my campfire is dark red and flameless Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Spring; Fall 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 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 UNREST IN AUTUMN, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text 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'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 VERSES FOR PICTURES: AUTUMN, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text 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'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 VIRTUE [OR, VERTUE], by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright Last Line: Then chiefly lives. Variant Title(s): Memento Mori;sweet Day;virtue [immortal];sweet Life Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Judgment Day; Mortality; Soul; Transience; Virtue; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Impermanence 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 WATER TABLE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text 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 WENDELL PHILLIPS, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw him stand, upon the judgment day Last Line: If but one soul be lost, how is man saved?' Subject(s): Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man WHALE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rain, with a silver flail Last Line: "and there was whale!" Subject(s): Creation; God; Judgment Day; Whales; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man WHAT WE ARE, by PEARLE MOORE STEVENS Poem Text First Line: I may not scale the mountain top Last Line: For what we really are. Subject(s): Good; Judgment Day; Truth; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man WHAT'S NEXT, by FREDERICK SEIDEL Poem Text 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'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 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 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 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 WITHERING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text 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'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 YOUR ACCOUNTING, by EMME MAAK Poem Text First Line: If you've walked with wisdom - known the way Last Line: You've done god's work -- you'll get god's pay! Subject(s): God; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man |
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