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| Searching... Subject: SEASONS Matches Found: 1268 A CLIMATIC MADRIGAL, by WILBUR DICK NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is time to go a-maying Last Line: When we have such splendid sleighing! Subject(s): Seasons; Spring; Weather 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 DARK MONTH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A month without sight of the sun Last Line: And the stars all night exult with us, hearing of joy that shall come with june. Subject(s): Nature; Night; Seasons; Sun; Bedtime A DAY IN MARCH, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look forth, beloved, from thy mansion high Last Line: And die! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Flowers; Life; March (month); Seasons A DOS'T O' BLUES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I got no patience with blues at all! Last Line: He's the same old color yit! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Blues (mood); Music & Musicians; Night; Seasons; Bedtime A DREAM, by ROY NANCE SMETHERS Poem Text First Line: We two went, hand in hand, dear love Last Line: And only me for you. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Seasons; Nightmares 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 DUMB FRIEND, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I planted a young tree when I was young Last Line: In shade the cypress weaves. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Seasons; Tears; Trees A GOLDEN HOUR, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A beckoning spirit of gladness seemed afloat Last Line: And fall'n my phantom summer? Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Seasons A HOOSIER CALENDAR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bleak january! Cold as fate Last Line: Recollections. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Weather A LAMENT FOR THE SUMMER, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Moan, o ye autumn winds! Last Line: And leave us desolate and earth forlorn! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Lament; Seasons; Summer; Wind; Dead, The A LILT IN FALL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The brown of her eyes in the oaken leaf Last Line: Oh, all the world shall sing of her! Subject(s): Autumn; New York City - Dutch Period; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Fall; Songs A LYRIC CALENDAR, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black-winged robbers of the north Last Line: All day long in the sere oak wood. Subject(s): Autumn; Calendars; Life; Seasons; Spring; Summer; Winter; Fall A LYRIC OF AUTUMN, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is music in the meadows, in the air Last Line: Wings the nocturne nature plays upon her lyre. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall A MASQUE OF THE SEASONS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer or winter or spring or fall Last Line: That's the reason I send them all! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fairies; Plays & Playwrights; Seasons; Elves A MID SONG FOR SPRING, by YORK SAMPSON Poem Text First Line: Early come the pasque flowers Last Line: When the winter's long! Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Spring; Winter A MOSS-ROSE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If the rose of all flowers be the rarest Last Line: The moss was a bonnet of plush. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Roses; Seasons A NEW MADRIGAL TO AN OLD MELODY, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As along a dark pine-bough, in slender white mystery Last Line: For marian, our clear may, so long laid in earth. Subject(s): Earth; Fools; Grief; Hope; Moon; Seasons; Time; World; Idiots; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism 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 IN SEASON, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: The madcap spring came yesterday Last Line: Grief, reappears. Subject(s): Seasons A SONG IN SEASON, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou whose beauty Last Line: And its roots bears fruit forever. Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Love; Seasons; Sorrow; Sadness 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 SONG OF SEASONS, by ELIZABETH ROBERTS MACDONALD Poem Text First Line: Sing a song of spring-time Last Line: That will last for aye! Subject(s): Nature; Seasons A SONG OF THE FOUR SEASONS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When spring comes laughing Last Line: And my love's heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Seasons 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 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 TREE MAY BE LUAGHTER IN THE SPRING, by HAZEL COLLISTER HUTCHISON Poem Text First Line: A tree may be laughter in the spring Last Line: It is a dare. Subject(s): Seasons; Trees 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 A YEAR'S CAROLS: APRIL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crowned april, king whose kiss bade earth Last Line: Praise him, the flower of all thy flowers. Subject(s): April; Flowers; Seasons A YEAR'S CAROLS: AUGUST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great august, lord of golden lands Last Line: Make night a noon where darkness dies. Subject(s): August; Night; Seasons; Bedtime A YEAR'S CAROLS: DECEMBER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: December, thou whose hallowing hands Last Line: Makes glad all grief on land or sea. Subject(s): Christmas; December; Seasons; Nativity, The A YEAR'S CAROLS: FEBRUARY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wan february with weeping cheer Last Line: But lit with hopes that light the year's. Subject(s): February; Seasons; Wind A YEAR'S CAROLS: JANUARY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, january, that bearest here Last Line: Thy feet enkindle stars of snow. Subject(s): January; Seasons; Snow A YEAR'S CAROLS: JULY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, proud july, whose fervent mouth Last Line: And midnight's rapturous plenilune. Subject(s): July; Music & Musicians; Seasons A YEAR'S CAROLS: JUNE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strong june, superb, serene, elate Last Line: That brings forth peace from shining strife. Subject(s): June; Seasons; Thunder A YEAR'S CAROLS: MARCH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, happy march, whose foot on earth Last Line: Of tempest and the towering morn. Subject(s): March (month); Seasons; Wind A YEAR'S CAROLS: MAY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, may, whose bark puts forth full-sailed Last Line: Is even a flower of flowering may. Subject(s): May (month); Seasons; Summer A YEAR'S CAROLS: NOVEMBER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, soft november, though thy pale Last Line: How fair thy faint wan face may be. Subject(s): Grief; November; Seasons; Sorrow; Sadness A YEAR'S CAROLS: OCTOBER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: October of the tawny crown Last Line: To know what joy would fain forget. Subject(s): Happiness; October; Seasons; Joy; Delight A YEAR'S CAROLS: SEPTEMBER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, kind september, friend whose grace Last Line: The fervent fields that knew thee near. Subject(s): Seasons; September; Sky ABOUT THE FAIRIES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Pray, where are the little bluebells gone Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons ABSENTIA ANIMI, by GUNNAR EKELOF Poem Source First Line: In autumn %in autumn of your leave-taking Last Line: In autumn Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons ACROSS THE AUTUMN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: White smoke twists into the sky in the distance Last Line: Out of the shadows that have been waiting Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AFTER THE VINTAGE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How can my vineyard's charm be told Last Line: Save pyramids of snow. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Vines And Vineyards; Fall AFTER TU FU (THEY SAY YOU'RE STAYING IN A MOUNTAIN TEMPLE), by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet'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 AGAINST SEASONS, by ROBERT MEZEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why should we praise them, or revere Last Line: We in this clash of circles know %only the vicious ones we live Subject(s): Seasons AGAINST THE SNOW, by EVA WILLES WANGSGAARD Poem Text First Line: All time is marked by seasons, gold or gray Last Line: What grace of mine will wear against the snow? Subject(s): Seasons 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 SAINTS' DAY, by MARY MAKOFSKE Poem Source First Line: Wind from the west and days of rain Last Line: Light wine served to cleanse %the palate after a feast Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons ALL SEASONS IN ONE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: April is in my mistress' face Last Line: But in her heart a cold december Subject(s): Seasons ALMS IN AUTUMN, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spindle-wood, spindle-wood, will you lend me, pray Last Line: They'll set the realms of fairyland all dancing with delight. Subject(s): Autumn; Fairies; Seasons; Fall; Elves ALONG THE OHIO - NOVEMBER, by MARY PRUDENCE MORTON Poem Text First Line: Let there be wind over this place forever Last Line: The last horseman, reining in his steed. Subject(s): Autumn; Ohio River; Seasons; Fall AN ADIRONDACK WINTER SONG, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Within our adirondack home Last Line: With light the soul doth know. Subject(s): Peace; Seasons; Snow; Weather; Winter 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 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 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 AND SPRING AGAIN, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a gray, a gray-green wood Last Line: He trembled, and shrank sighing. Subject(s): Seasons; Spring 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 EPISTLE TO NELL, by JANET LITTLE Poem Text First Line: While phoebus did our summer arbours cheer Last Line: We'll please ourselves with one another's praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Richmond, Janet; Little, Jennie Subject(s): Praise; Seasons ANOTHER FALL, by KEVIN DURKIN Poem Source First Line: Higgledy-piggledy %william the conqueror Last Line: Counterproductively %way oversold Subject(s): Autumn; Business; Seasons ANOTHER 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 ANOTHER SUMMER DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A dewdrop sparkled in the sun Last Line: Another summer day. Subject(s): Happiness; Heat; Seasons; Summer; Sun; Joy; Delight ANSWER JULY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Here - said the year Variant Title(s): Poem: 386; Poem: 66 Subject(s): Seasons; Time ANSWERING LU YE, by LIANG YI Poem Source First Line: I heard wind and waterfall Last Line: Those objects hanging from the eaves, %just autumn clouds Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Zen Buddhism ANT AN ENGINEER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The pastry was delicious, and I wanted it myseld Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons ANTICIPATION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The master scans the woven score Last Line: As yet unheard. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Seasons ANYONE LIVED IN A PRETTY HOW TOWN, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Sun moon stars rain Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Variant Title(s): 50 Poems: 2 Subject(s): Life; Seasons; Time 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 APOLOGY, by CAROL FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Already the land is starting to forget gardens Last Line: And is no longer availing and can neither take nor give away Variant Title(s): Autumn Apolog Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AS SUMMER INTO AUTUMN SLIPS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography Last Line: Of life's declivity Variant Title(s): Poem: 1346; Poem: 134 Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Summer; Time ASPECTS OF AUTUMN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the wonder of their weaving lie the forests and the fields Last Line: Yea, utterly forgotten, every one. Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Hearts; Love; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Seasons; Tears; Fall; Woods AT A HERITAGE, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A cool fall night Last Line: Eggplants, cucumbers Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AT MICHAELMAS, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: About the time of michael's feast Last Line: Here's ragged-robin the field, %a simple vagrant Subject(s): Autumn; Michael, The Archangel; Saints; Seasons AT SUNSET, by MATTIE A. W. CLARK Poem Source First Line: Sunset glories are smiling down Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons AT THE POOL, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: This summer we dare - we climb we Last Line: The clear green water %is our world %until lungs explode us %into air Subject(s): Seasons AUGUST (2), by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mellow month and merry Last Line: With bangles in your hair! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): August; Beauty; Seasons 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 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 ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Go, sit upon the lofty hill Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN, by JENNIE COPPOCK CAFFREY Poem Text First Line: Fields laid bare, and haystacks high Last Line: The sun shining through a faint haze. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So still - so still! Only the endless sighing Last Line: The germ of a new life that's life indeed. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN, by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love to see, when leaves depart Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN, by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I love to see, when leaves depart Last Line: The grape will redden on your fingers %through the lit crystal of the cup Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet'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 KIM TONGMYONG Poem Source First Line: Your heart is a deserted sandbar Last Line: O my lady! You are sad and beautiful %like a young widow Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN, by ALBERT LAIGHTON Poem Source First Line: The world puts on its robes of glory now Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons AUTUMN, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The air deals blows: surely too hard, too often? Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The air deals blows: surely too hard, too often? Last Line: And the case of butterflies so rich it looks %as if all summer settled there and died Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sad nights are here and the sad mornings Last Line: "a tiny sorrow, shrilling ""where? Ah! Where?" Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now leafy winds are blowing cold Last Line: Upon another heart in tune. Subject(s): Autumn; Beauty; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With what a glory comes and goes the year! Last Line: To his long resting-place without a tear. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A child's hand is dissolving Last Line: And black leaves %in the gale winds Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Autumn; Childhood Memories; Seasons AUTUMN, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You take your summer, you take your spring Last Line: Just about medium, just about right! Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN, by ELEANOR MCGUIRE Poem Source First Line: God, %whatever made you Last Line: Of even more beautiful things %to come? Subject(s): Autumn; God; Seasons AUTUMN, by NELLIE H. MOORE Poem Text First Line: The air now bears a frosty chill Last Line: And god is turning o'er a page. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN, by ROSA MULHOLLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under a purple cloud along the west Last Line: Sleep unafraid, for ye shall live again.' Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, Lady Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN, by FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is autumn: it -- yet will break your heart! Last Line: Fly away! Fly away! Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The russet field, the leafless tree, / the wood so still and lone Last Line: And falls the eddying snow. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN, by ALEXANDER L. POSEY Poem Text First Line: In the dreamy silence / of the afternoon, a Last Line: Rest -- and it is autumn. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN, by A. W. RANSOM Poem Text First Line: Along the grass strange shadows play Last Line: While god the nearer seems. Subject(s): Autumn; God; Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The children have colds and snore Last Line: From the plane trees through the dark Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a harvester, at dusk Last Line: These delights for festival. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Autumn; Festivals; Harvest; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Fall; Fairs; Pageants AUTUMN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn leaves are falling Last Line: Carefully in his hand %everything falling forever Variant Title(s): Herbs Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: October's bellowing anger breaks and cleaves Last Line: The burden of your wrongs is on my head. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Fall; First World War AUTUMN, by SIMON SERFOZO Poem Source First Line: Autumn is plucking the leaves Last Line: Plucking the leaves Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons AUTUMN, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet'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 MARJORIE STELMACH Poem Source First Line: Soon again the dead will outnumber Last Line: Benediction suspended above us all summer? Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Dreams; Seasons AUTUMN, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It may be on a quiet mountain-top Last Line: And sing no more to you. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long lines of coral light Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Long lines of coral light Last Line: In the calm above Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now at the aged year's decline Last Line: The sacrament of bread and wine. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN, by CYNTHIA TAGGART Poem Text First Line: Now autumn tints the scene Last Line: Kiss the low ground, and flutter, shrink, and die. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The softest shadows mantle o'er his form Last Line: Far down the vista of the fading year. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet'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 (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 PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: List to the sad wind, drearily moaning Last Line: Who'd have believe such a fate was impending. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN (DOUBLE OAK MOUNTAIN - ALABAMA), by IDA DREAM SCHWARTZ Poem Text First Line: Hushed and old Last Line: Of stiff white birch stirring like ghost. Subject(s): Autumn; Mountains; Seasons; Fall; Hills; Downs (great Britain) AUTUMN ALCHEMY, by LUNA CRAVEN OSBURN Poem Text First Line: I will take me out to the autumn woods Last Line: Midst the blessed peace of trees. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN ALONG THE BEACHES, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A year with all its days, has come and gone Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN AND DEATH, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are coy, these sisters, autumn and death Subject(s): Autumn; Religion; Seasons; Fall; Theology AUTUMN AND DEATH, by AMY LOWELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They are coy, these sisters, autumn and death Subject(s): Autumn; Religion; Seasons AUTUMN AND SPRING, by JULIA COOLEY ALTROCCHI Poem Text First Line: Autumn is sister to the spring Last Line: Across the span of a white hour. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Spring; Fall AUTUMN AND ST. FRANCIS (AFTER VIEW ZEFFERELLI'S 'BROTHER SUN'), by LEN BLANCHARD Poem Source First Line: The autumn never seemed so sad Last Line: Of the years provides a path to restoration Subject(s): Autumn; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Saints; Seasons AUTUMN AND WINTER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three months bade wane and wax the wintering moon Last Line: A star had set? Subject(s): Roundels; Seasons; Soul; Stars AUTUMN AT TAOS, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Over the rounded sides of the rockies, the aspens of autumn Last Line: Are nerveless just now %so be easy Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN AUGURY, by LOTTIE HENDERSON CARY Poem Text First Line: Portent hangs low in blue september skies Last Line: To peace and silence by this vivid change! Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN BEAUTIES, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From stubble field, woodland and meadow Last Line: Nothing could lovelier be. Subject(s): Autumn; Beauty; Nature; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN BEGINS IN MARTINS FERRY, OHIO, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the shreve high football stadium Last Line: And gallop terribly against each other's bodies Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Autumn; Education; Football; Industry; Labor And Laborers; Schools; Seasons; Sports AUTUMN BIRDS, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wild duck startles like a sudden thought Last Line: While small birds nestle in the hedge below. Subject(s): Autumn; Birds; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN CARES: 2, by MENG CHIAO Poem Source First Line: The autumn's moon complexion is ice Last Line: A beech tree looming and bare, %sound and echo like sad notes plucked Subject(s): Autumn; Beech Trees; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Seasons; Trees AUTUMN CHANT, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now the autumn shudders Last Line: Beauty never slumbers; %all is in her name; %but the rose remembers %the dust from which it came Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN COLORS (1), by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet'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 COMES, by LI HO Poem Source First Line: Wind in the plane tree startles the heart: a grown man's grief. Last Line: And his spiteful blood, buried a thousand years, is now %green jade Subject(s): Autumn; Poetry And Poets; Seasons AUTUMN COMMUNION, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This autumn afternoon Last Line: In leaf and cloud unfurled. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN COVERS ALL THE WORLD, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: They are more thrifty than I am Subject(s): Autumn; China; Seasons AUTUMN CRICKET, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the warm hush of the autumnal night Subject(s): Autumn; Crickets; Seasons AUTUMN DANCE, by WILLIAM HAROLD MCCREARY Poem Text First Line: Now out of heat and thunder Last Line: The burnished wing, how brief! Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN DAWNING, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A long roadway %between gray cliff sides Last Line: Between his nimble hounds, a hunter is walking Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Autumn; Home; Jungles; Nature; Seasons AUTUMN DAY, VILLAGE LIFE: RHYMING AFTER MY FATHER'S POEM, by YE WANWAN Poem Source First Line: Floating life is nothing but a dream Last Line: Autumn leads waters to the five lakes Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN DAYBREAK, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cold wind of autumn, blowing loud Last Line: Through the stripped maple I shall see, %bleak and remembered, patched with red, %the hill all summe Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN DAYS, by FRANZ EMANUEL GEIBEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunny days of the autumn Last Line: The poet alone can tell. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN DAYS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the cup of our life to-day Last Line: Thank him from strand to strand. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Autumn; God; Gratitude; Harvest; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN DAYS; QUATRAIN, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet'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 DUSK, AND IN THE GRASS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Drain off the light Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Autumn; Insects; Nature; Seasons; Spiders AUTUMN EVEN-SONG, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet'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 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 EVENING, by FEODOR (FYODOR) IVANOVICH TYUTCHEV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The light of autumn evenings fall serene Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN EVENING, by FEODOR (FYODOR) IVANOVICH TYUTCHEV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the magnificence of autumn eves Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN FANCIES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The maple is a dainty maid Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN FANTASY, by JEAN PRITCHARD Poem Text First Line: Autumn has bestowed her accolade Last Line: Your whispered summons come. Subject(s): Autumn; Blue Ridge Mountains; Fantasy; Nature; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN FEELINGS, by WANG FENGXIAN Poem Source First Line: Through closed pearl blinds the moonbeam penetrates Last Line: Maple leaves lie as if drunken in the crimson forest Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN FIELDS, by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He said his legs were stiff and sore Last Line: And the land where he had been Subject(s): Autumn; Farm Life; Seasons AUTUMN GARDEN, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My tent stands in a garden Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons AUTUMN GLORY, by EDITH EDWARDS WALDRON Poem Source First Line: Where is there beauty such as this,' we ask Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN GOLD, by NELL H. ROYSE Poem Text First Line: A gust of wind, and down they come Last Line: Has changed to autumn gold. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN HAZE, by HARRY HARRISON KROLL Poem Text First Line: The autumn afternoon Last Line: And I am lonely. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN HEALING, by JEAN WARD Poem Source First Line: When night comes on and the chills creep in Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN HOLIDAY ON MOUNT ROYAL, by AMY BISSETT ENGLAND Poem Text First Line: Some gay leaf-carpets had been laid, where groups Last Line: Her curtains down and tied them back with stars. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN IMPRESSION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A frost came overnight. Then all the day Last Line: A haunt for spirits and a home for stars. Subject(s): Autumn; Earth; Eyes; Frost; Leaves; Seasons; Stars; Fall; World AUTUMN IMPRESSIONS, by CHA SHEN-HSING Poem Source First Line: A cricket chirrups near my bed Last Line: A blind ancient follows a sightless youth Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN IN CARMEL, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now with a sigh november comes to the brooding Subject(s): Autumn; Carmel, California; Seasons AUTUMN IN CONNECTICUT, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why does my heart leap with the fall Last Line: Fresh leaves may yet take root Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Autumn; Connecticut; Leaves; Seasons AUTUMN IN ENGLAND, by COLIN MITCHELL Poem Source Subject(s): Autumn; England; Seasons; Soldiers; World War I AUTUMN IN GAOL, by TSUBOI SHIGEJI Poem Source First Line: In autumn a friend Last Line: Heavy as the world Subject(s): Apples; Autumn; Fruit; Human Rights; Prisons And Prisoners; Seasons AUTUMN IN MERAN, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The vintage time is gone, but not its glory Last Line: In autumn wearest thou thy fairest crown. Subject(s): Autumn; Past; Seasons; Vines And Vineyards; Fall AUTUMN IN MY GARDEN, by MARION MACKENZIE Poem Text First Line: With autumn coming on I hastened home Last Line: Dust, ashes, on the ground. Subject(s): Autumn; Gardens & Gardening; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN IN THE GARDEN, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the frosty kiss of autumn in the dark Last Line: Never walk alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Autumn; Regret; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN IN THE HIGHLANDS; AFTER KEATS, by JOHN CAMPBELL SHAIRP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: October misty bright, the touch is thine Last Line: And crackling grouse-cock whirs on pinions strong. Subject(s): Autumn; Scotland; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN IN THE WEALD, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, for here the lazy night Last Line: Alone with the mist I linger on. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Seasons; Fall; Woods AUTUMN IN THE WEST, by WILLIAM DAVIS GALLAGHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn time is with us Last Line: And golden-sphered persimmons spread o'er all. Variant Title(s): The Autumn Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN LEAVES, by PEARL B. BLOSS Poem Text First Line: Nature turned their somber green Last Line: In other things which grow. Subject(s): Autumn; Growth; Leaves; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN LEAVES, by CHARLES DICKENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn leaves, autumn leaves Last Line: Forgotten, changed, or dead. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; Bereavement AUTUMN LEAVES, by PIGE EARLY Poem Text First Line: A roll Last Line: Asleep. Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN LEAVES, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: The autumn leaves are turning fast Last Line: The spirit doth reveal. Subject(s): Autumn; Cold; Leaves; Seasons; Wind; Fall AUTUMN LEAVES, by JANIE SCREVEN HEYWARD Poem Text First Line: The dear old ladies whose cheeks are pink Last Line: A little crumpled, but lovely still. Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN LEAVES, by MINNIE CASE HOPKINS Poem Text First Line: About the chilly, ragged lawns they lie Last Line: Could ask a fairer fate for them, or me? Subject(s): Autumn; Religion; Seasons; Fall; Theology AUTUMN LEAVES, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Children of the road, autumn leaves Last Line: Lies sprawled beneath a tree %gaunt in his giving Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN LEAVES, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn leaves are falling, and poets Last Line: Kidlets on the floor, around me joy and laughter, and neighbors at the door. Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Nature; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN LEAVES, by BUREN A. MULLINS Poem Text First Line: Oh, the autumn leaves are falling Last Line: "good-bye, old fellow." Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN LEAVES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come, little leaves,' said the wind one day Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons AUTUMN LOVE, by STUART MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The enchantress of thule Last Line: On her island has ravished my soul Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN MARKET, by JEAN V. GIER Poem Source First Line: This market welcomes young and old Last Line: Stored in the market of your mind! Subject(s): Autumn; Markets; Seasons AUTUMN MELODY, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the autumn days, the days of parting Last Line: Would our shades could drink it, and be stilled Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN MESSAGES, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: The flowers that as they fade fling parting kisses tender Last Line: That I should care for thee! Subject(s): Autumn; Farewell; Love - Nature Of; Seasons; Fall; Parting AUTUMN MOOD, by DRUSA APPLEY Poem Text First Line: Low hanging clouds in sullen guise Last Line: She hastens to the sea. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN MOOD, by SELETHA A. BROWN Poem Text First Line: I shall store within my heart this fervor Last Line: By which my soul defeats the winter's chill. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN MOVEMENT, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cried over beautiful things knowing no beautiful thing lasts Last Line: And the old things go, not one lasts. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN MUSING, by MARIE T. COPP Poem Text First Line: Strange poignancy of autumn haze Last Line: Alternate stirs and stills. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN MYSTERY, by TESSA SWEAZY WEBB Poem Text First Line: I am intrigued with autumn's crimson call Last Line: I glorify the autumn's loveliness. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN NIGHT, by DUAN SHUQING Poem Source First Line: The single cry of a goose after frost Last Line: Layered clothes collect the tracks of tears Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN NIGHT, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves are turning brown again Last Line: The leaves are turning brown Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN NIGHT ON THE RIVER, by TS'AN LIAO TZU Poem Source First Line: Rain obscures the green river Last Line: The moonlight, there, in %floating shallow places bright Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Zen Buddhism AUTUMN NOCTURNE, by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Listen how low the rain is singing there Last Line: Even this last-heard, drowsy sound of rain. Subject(s): Autumn; Rain; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN OF LIFE, by MRS. S. W. RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: As leaves fall from trees Last Line: To seek for the infinite. Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Life; Life Change Events; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN OF MANY YEARS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In a ruddy light, in a craggy Last Line: Summerhouse above the hazy river Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN ON THE PRAIRIE, by JEAN KAMPSCHROEDER Poem Text First Line: There's a hush upon the prairie Last Line: I am home this year. Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Homecoming; Seasons; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness AUTUMN ON THE UPPER THAMES, FR. THE GLITTERING PLAIN, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair is the world, now autumn's wearing Last Line: And all is a tale for thee and me. Variant Title(s): Fair Is The World Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN ORCHARDS, by CLARK ASHTON SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Walled with fair azures of the wintering year Last Line: Of love is colored like the dying year. Subject(s): Autumn; Orchards; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN PENTECOST, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: The pouring love is god's Last Line: To a clear flash, a shining Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN PLAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: World, to-day you're red and gold Last Line: Who could call you sad or old? Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN PROPHECY, by GORDON DALE CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The season of death and repining Last Line: Inevitable to death. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN RAIN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two days ago the sky was Last Line: Steep rocks through the soaking ferns Subject(s): Autumn; Rain; Seasons; Sky; Fall AUTUMN RAIN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Two days ago the sky was Last Line: Steep rocks through the soaking ferns Subject(s): Autumn; Rain; Seasons; Sky AUTUMN ROSES, by MARGARET STANLEY-WRENCH Poem Text First Line: Now when the year dips swiftly towards winter Last Line: Before the even greyness of the night. Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Roses; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN SCENE, by E. FLEMING HOTT Poem Text First Line: Red leaves, whirling in a dance of death Last Line: Alone defiant of the chilly blast. Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN SEA, by SHIN TONGCHUN Poem Source First Line: I came to meet the Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN SO SOON, by MORIKAWA KYOROKU Poem Source Last Line: First tinted maples Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN SOLILOQUY, by ELSIE DINWIDDIE BARTLETT Poem Text First Line: The moan of dying leaves falls hauntingly Last Line: Or agony that beauty cannot last? Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN SONG, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Soon we will plunge ourselves into cold shadows Last Line: Echoes of departure keep resounding in the air Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A keen west wind from the hills away Last Line: Hopes and dreamings and dead desires. Subject(s): Autumn; Desire; Hope; Memory; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Wind; Fall; Optimism; Songs AUTUMN SONG, by EDWARD DOWDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long autumn rain;/white mists which choke the vale, and blot the sides Last Line: Of winged things. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN SONG, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH Poem Text First Line: A little wind will loosen now Last Line: What took so little, gave so much. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN SONG, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: It is well with the gold Last Line: And all is a praise Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN SONG, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now's the time when children's noses Last Line: And just love the autumn weather. Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN SONG, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn has emptied heaven of its birds Last Line: And crows talk hoarsely in the frozen wood Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Migration; Nature; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN SONG, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Know'st thou not at the fall of the leaf Last Line: In autumn at the fall of the leaf? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN SONG, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No clouds are in the morning sky Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons AUTUMN SONG, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My life is but a leaf upon the tree Last Line: Is mystery of mysteries to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Self; Fall AUTUMN STIRRINGS: 1, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Jade white dew scars and harms Last Line: Pounding blocks urgent in dusk Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Autumn; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Seasons AUTUMN STIRRINGS: 2, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On kui-zhou's lonely walls Last Line: In front of sandbars has cast its light %on flowers of the reeds Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Autumn; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Seasons AUTUMN STIRRINGS: 3, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand homes of the mountain town Last Line: And the mantles they wear are light Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Autumn; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Seasons AUTUMN STIRRINGS: 4, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have been told that chang-an Last Line: Is the longing of my heart Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Autumn; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Seasons AUTUMN STIRRINGS: 5, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Palace towers of peng-lai Last Line: Take my place in dawn court's ranks? Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Autumn; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Seasons AUTUMN STIRRINGS: 6, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the mouth of the ju-tang gorge Last Line: Qin since ancient times has been %land of emperors Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Autumn; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Seasons AUTUMN STIRRINGS: 7, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The waters of kun-ming pool Last Line: Lakes and rivers fill the earth, %and one old man, fishing Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Autumn; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Lakes; Seasons AUTUMN STIRRINGS: 8, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At kun-wu hill the yu-su brook Last Line: Head hanging in bitterness Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Autumn; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Seasons AUTUMN SUNSET ON THE SIERRA NEVADAS, by DOROTHY BOARDMAN Poem Text First Line: I love the autumn view Last Line: Over all the landscape valley. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Fall AUTUMN THOUGHTS, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I, from my chamber-window, mark Last Line: Soon after bleak december. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN THOUGHTS, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In yanzhi the yellow leaves are falling Last Line: Vainly I lament the fallen orchids Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN THOUGHTS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gone hath the spring, with all its flowers Last Line: Nor summer warm thy frozen heart. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN THOUGHTS (1), by LU YU (1125-1210) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sumac showing faint traces of red Last Line: To bring it unto my page? Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN THOUGHTS (2), by LU YU (1125-1210) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mornings up before the rooster calls Last Line: It's not that I don't have my cup of wine for comfort, %but when will this press of business ever sl Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You Subject(s): Autumn; Labor And Laborers; Seasons AUTUMN THOUGHTS (8), by HAN YU Poem Source First Line: Blown tumbling, leaves that fall to the ground Last Line: There's something on my mind just now, %a task to be done that never ends Alternate Author Name(s): T'su-chih Subject(s): Autumn; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Seasons AUTUMN THOUGHTS, RHYMED AFTER MOTHER'S POEM ON THINGS PAST, by YE XIAOLUAN Poem Source First Line: The drizzle saturates the banana trees Last Line: Then I will pick them, and a subtle fragrance will fill my sleeves Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN THOUGHTS: 2, by HAN YU Poem Source First Line: When white dew descends on the hundred grasses Last Line: Each has its season, its own proper time; %why should pine and cypress alone be prized? Alternate Author Name(s): T'su-chih Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN THOUGHTS: 8, by HAN YU Poem Source First Line: Leaves fall turning to the ground Last Line: A man has times when he must think, %and work to do that never ends Alternate Author Name(s): T'su-chih Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN TIME, by HERMAN J. D. CARTER Poem Text First Line: Tarnished leaves scurry across the plains Last Line: That he is not changing to moldy sod. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Wind; Fall AUTUMN TINTS, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Coral-coloured yew-berries Last Line: Flames leap high and higher. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN TUNE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweeter than spring, sweeter than spring Last Line: Where death is a-dream on azure wings. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Dreams; Fear; Life; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; Nightmares AUTUMN TWILIGHT, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Autumn twilight %is sad to see Last Line: Holding the universe in my heart Subject(s): Autumn; Hearts; Love; Prisons And Prisoners; Seasons AUTUMN VESPERS, by EDWIN COULSON CLARK Poem Text First Line: The season's turn now brings autumnal days Last Line: We sense the fall. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN WEATHER, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet'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 WOODS, by BLANCHE SHOEMAKER WAGSTAFF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These woods are wintry now ... That yesterday Alternate Author Name(s): Carr, Mrs. Donald Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Seasons AUTUMN [OR, NOVEMBER DAYS], by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the fitful gust that shakes Last Line: The mill sails on the heath a-going. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN'S CLOISONNE, by ALBERTA MCMAHON SHERWIN Poem Text First Line: The wayside hedge is starred with purple aster Last Line: He fain would temper it to mortal sight. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN'S COLD, by PO CHU-YI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here's my snowy crown Last Line: To learn from empty boats! Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Zen Buddhism AUTUMN'S SIDEREAL, NOVEMBER'S A BALL AND CHAIN, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the leaves have fallen, the sky turns blue again Last Line: Through the white pines, somesuch and susrration. Sh-h-h. Sh-h-h... Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN'S SPLENDOURS, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Don't miss the autumn's splendours' Last Line: Of hopes that summer sold. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The AUTUMN, CRYSTAL EYE, by MARGOT RUDDOCK Poem Source Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN, FORSAKE THESE HILLS, by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN, FR. THE GARDEN, by VICTORIA MARY SACKVILLE-WEST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn in felted slippers shuffles on Last Line: With red-hot poker, autumn's final torch Alternate Author Name(s): Nicholson, Harold, Mrs.; Sackville-west, Vita Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN, NO ANSWER, by HERMAN FONG Poem Source First Line: It's not ideal, or even fair Last Line: For large animals crossing the road Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN. THE THIRD PASTORAL, ORHYLAS AND AEGON, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the shade a spreading beech displays Last Line: And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade. Subject(s): Autumn; Country Life; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN: 1, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: October has come - already now the wood Last Line: To ravage winter crops in distant fields, %they bay until the sleeping forest yields Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich Subject(s): Autumn; Scottish Translations; Seasons AUTUMN: 10, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And I forget the world - and in dear silence Last Line: And now a swarm of unseen guests draws near, %both old friends and imagined shapes are here Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich Subject(s): Autumn; Scottish Translations; Seasons AUTUMN: 11, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And have thoughts break like waves along my brain Last Line: Masts are shinned up and down, sails belly free, %the huge mass moves and slices through the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich Subject(s): Autumn; Scottish Translations; Seasons AUTUMN: 12, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Great to sail off with it! But where to go? Last Line: Or switzers' pyramid array on show, %or wild and sad scottish rock-fortresses Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich Subject(s): Autumn; Scottish Translations; Seasons AUTUMN: 2, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now is my time: I hold no brief for spring Last Line: While a warm hand stirs from beneath her sable %to press my hand, and make her flush and tremble Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich Subject(s): Autumn; Scottish Translations; Seasons AUTUMN: 3, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What a delight to glide on sharp-shod iron Last Line: Pleasure for ever from juliet in a sledge, %or vegetate by stove and window-ledge Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich Subject(s): Autumn; Scottish Translations; Seasons AUTUMN: 4, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Summer, you beauty! I would be truly yours Last Line: Once more: pancakes and wine for her farewell, %ice and ice-cream for her memorial Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich Subject(s): Autumn; Scottish Translations; Seasons AUTUMN: 5, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Late autumn days are no one's favourite Last Line: Such good, in autumn? Yes, I can discover %its beckoning essence, and I am no boastful lover Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich Subject(s): Autumn; Scottish Translations; Seasons AUTUMN: 6, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How to persuade you? Were you ever taken Last Line: Her face has twilight in its blood, not dawn; %alive today, tomorrow she is gone Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich Subject(s): Autumn; Scottish Translations; Seasons AUTUMN: 7, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Melancholy time, yet magic to the sight! Last Line: The rare sun-ray and the first test of frost, %the distant menace of winter's grizzled ghost Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich Subject(s): Autumn; Scottish Translations; Seasons AUTUMN: 8, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And with each autumn I bud and bloom once more Last Line: Of life and happiness - that's my organism %(and please forgive this forced prosaicism) Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich Subject(s): Autumn; Scottish Translations; Seasons AUTUMN: 9, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My horse is brought; it shakes its mane and takes Last Line: Now more, now smouldering and now flaring: %I read there, or I feed my long thoughts, staring Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich Subject(s): Autumn; Scottish Translations; Seasons AUTUMN: A DIRGE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet'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 GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE Poem Source First Line: October-brutal rain punishes leaves Last Line: Slushing our filthy, snowy rhetoric Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMNAL, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale amber sunlight falls across Last Line: Beneath the drear november trees. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMNAL, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The saffron-colored leaves are cresting into their moment. It's Last Line: It is to be here. And because we are not gone, still we are early Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Nature; Seasons; Wind AUTUMNAL, by KATHLEEN MCGOOKEY Poem Source First Line: I can only tell you Last Line: Only the smoke wasn't like a scarf. It was only like smoke which smelled bad Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Smells AUTUMNAL, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-night the tumult of the autumn wind Last Line: A little while, o leaves, and we shall know! Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Earth; Seasons; Wind; Fall; Dead, The; World AUTUMNAL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wish the poplar tree would shed Last Line: Again, the long-perished dear delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Autumn; Poplar Trees; Seasons; Fall AUTUMNAL CHARACTERISTICS, by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In sunny spots of woodland, boys are gathering walnuts, and shouting Last Line: Pity, that the frosty night will so soon stop their music! Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons AUTUMNAL ECSTASY, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If my soul were a flower Last Line: But flames to deeper glory. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMNAL LEAVES, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: No more ye sway and shimmer in the sky Last Line: The efflorescence of the opening year. Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Nature; Seasons; Fall AUTUMNAL ODE, by FRANCIS FAWKES Poem Text First Line: Ere yet the russet foliage fall Last Line: "this season's sober calm for blandishing repose." Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall AUTUMNAL SONNET, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods Last Line: Poor earth, where we were wont to live and grieve. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Autumn; Desertion & Nonsupport; Grief; Leaves; Melancholy; Seasons; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection AUTUMNAL VESPERS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clarion wind, that blew so loud at morn Last Line: My strength, o god! In thine Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Autumn; Life; Love; Memory; Seasons; Wind; Fall AUTUMNUAL, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, take my hand for one more time Last Line: A wistful medley of dead leaves %and autumn rain Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons BARTER, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Now the winter seems a pseudonym Last Line: We possess the promise of the worm. Subject(s): Mortality; Seasons; Winter BARTLETT'S QUOTATIONS, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here are half a dozen leaves Last Line: Of fire held in the hand Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Nature; Poetry And Poets; Seasons BAVARIAN GENTIANS, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet'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 BEAUTY IS CHANGE, by MAY LEWIS Poem Text First Line: All joy is not encased in the green bud Last Line: Nor warmth in snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Goldstone, Mrs. Lafayette Anthony Subject(s): Beauty; Change; Flowers; Roses; Seasons BEDFELLOWS, by ANN LAUINGER Poem Source First Line: They must have slept out nine dark Last Line: So much as the foolish thought %that they were bedfellows Subject(s): Beds; Friendship; Nature; Seasons BEECHNUT, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: O the great and happy beech Last Line: Tiny things to patter down %from a forest tree! Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons 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 THE END OF DAY, by WINNIFRED HOLLOWAY Poem Text First Line: The brief, drab interval between Last Line: Of rose and blue and white . . . Subject(s): Evening; Seasons; Trees; Sunset; Twilight BEFORE WINTER, by FREDERICK R. MCCREARY Poem Text First Line: Long ago / the thunder went talking itself to the dark hills Last Line: And darkness is peace. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall BEGINNING OF AUTUMN, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Both the same green Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons BELOW THE LAUREL TREE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Sneaking off through the gold trees? Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Trees BETTER THE SEASONED FRUIT, by ANNA MAY DUDLEY Poem Text First Line: So unimportant! Now that they are gone Last Line: When first the sense is taken unaware. Subject(s): Fruit; Seasons 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 BETWEEN TWO SEASONS, by ELIZABETH BURNINGHAM Poem Text First Line: It can't be just the winter on the world Last Line: My restless heart is caught between two seasons. Subject(s): Seasons BEWITCHED BY AUTUMN, by NED PASTOR Poem Source First Line: Autumn's enchanting - %a riot of color Last Line: I'm not an all-season %but just a fall guy! Subject(s): Autumn; Colors; Seasons BIRD AND CLOUD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: Lord, if that cloud still grows and swells Last Line: And his mind has no complaint? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Contentment; Seasons; Summer; Sun BIRD'S-FOOT TREFOIL, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Here I dance in a dress like flames Last Line: But children may call me what they choose Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons 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 BLACKBERRY, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: My berries cluster black and thick Last Line: But when the bramble-jelly's made, %you'll find your trouble well repaid Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons BLACKTHORN, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: The wind is cold, the spring seems long Last Line: The leafless branches of the blackthorn, %spangled %with starry blossoms white! Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons BLIZZARD, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: On the highway Last Line: All night %I will dream of moths %and white birds Subject(s): Seasons BLUE NORTHER, by ISAAC W. WADE Poem Text First Line: Alone and self-imprisoned there, the town Last Line: To make them wish they were in hammond's place. Subject(s): Friendship; Marriage; Seasons; Towns; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BOX TREE, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Have you seen the box unclipped Last Line: And among its leaves there play %little blue-tits, brisk and gay Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons BREATH OF SEASONS, by MABLE A. STEWART Poem Text First Line: Spring is but a baby's breath Last Line: Blows her hopes away. Subject(s): Seasons BRIAR ROSE, by MICHELLE BOISSEAU Poem Source First Line: March. Maples waver their red beginnings Last Line: We wake to see how strangely time has passed Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons BRIEF WORDS FOR OCTOBER, by ELMO RUSS Poem Text First Line: Crying like a dervish born of dark Last Line: To sing a hush-hush sound. Subject(s): Autumn; Night; October; Seasons; Time; Fall; Bedtime BROCADE SHAWL, by EDYTHE GORDON Poem Text First Line: Autumn will bring a hutch of gold Last Line: Upon the ground. Subject(s): Autumn; Night; Seasons; Fall; Bedtime BRUSHED BY THE MASTER'S HAND, by PAUL FLOYD CORNISH Poem Text First Line: Somebody's coming to my house Last Line: At the close of an autumn day. Subject(s): Autumn; Frost; Seasons; Winter; Fall BURNING AUTUMN LEAVES, by FLORENCE ENGLISH HADDEN Poem Text First Line: The spicy smell of burning autumn leaves Last Line: I light a match, -- then, -- only ashes here. Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Fall BURNING OF THE LEAVES, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the time for the burning of the leaves Last Line: Nothing is certain, only the certain spring Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons BY PARCELS POST, by GEORGE ROBERT SIMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sent my love a parcel Last Line: Eight-and-twenty years ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Dagonet Subject(s): Marriage; Postal Service; Seasons; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen 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 CALENDAR, by ERIKA MAILMAN Poem Source First Line: In the cellar she fingers the jars of honey Last Line: One urges forget me I was never here %and the speaker forgets who spoke Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Seasons; Time CALENDAR, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Toward august's end Last Line: Looks white to men Subject(s): Seasons CALENDAR, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Toward august's end Last Line: The northern nation %looks white to men Subject(s): Seasons CAMPSITE, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: Something points us Last Line: And shadowed their eyes see %us the arrowhead our %wild sparks something %wants us here Subject(s): Seasons CAN YOU COUNT THE STARS?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons CANCION OF SPRING, by PABLO PIFERRER Y FABREGAS Poem Source First Line: Here the springtime come again Last Line: Lost are mine - and hope is o'er! Subject(s): Flowers; Innocence; Love; Seasons; Spring CARDINAL, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: Red as a shout Last Line: In the whole city %pale and dusted with %snow %only his wings are ablaze %with poppies! Subject(s): Animals; Seasons 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 CAROUSE, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn, in her scarlet cloak Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons CELESTE: 10. LOVE IN AUTUMN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is already autumn, and not in my heart only Last Line: Yet, leaves, ye have had your rapture, and thou, poor heart, thy summer! Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Seasons; Fall CHANCE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Give me a chance,' an acorn said Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons CHANGE, by GARCILASO DE LA VEGA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Enjoy the sweets of life's luxuriant may Last Line: Constant in this, will change all else %below! Alternate Author Name(s): Garcillaso De La Vega; Vega, Garcilaso De La Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Seasons; Spring CHANGE ASSURED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: This world it is a pleasant place Last Line: When it will be too warm Subject(s): Earth;nature;pleasure;seasons; World CHARADE (2), by CASSANDRA ELIZABETH AUSTEN Poem Source First Line: By my 1st you may travel with safety & speed Last Line: What am I, fair lady, pray tell me Subject(s): Seasons CHILD AND THE WORLD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I see a nest in a green elm-tree Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons CHRISTMAS TREE, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: The little christmas tree was born Last Line: O magic sight, this joyous night! %o laden, sparkling tree! Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons 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 CLEAR AUTUMN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This small flat clearing is not Last Line: Brilliant under a gauze of light Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons COLOUR, by ADELINE WHITE Poem Source First Line: The world is full of colour! Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons COME NOT THE SEASONS HERE, by EDWIN JOHN PRATT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Comes not the springtime here Last Line: Or the hoot of a horned owl %on a glacial stone Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J. Subject(s): Seasons COMING OF DAWN, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thin silver cloud-veils hide the moon Last Line: The darkness fall, Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Weather COMING TO GRIPS, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Like every faceless fact that stares with zeal, Last Line: But shed its trappings as you make your way. Subject(s): Reality; Seasons 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 CONSTELLATIONS OF AUTUMN, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who oversees this congregation, this collect of caws, this clamor of rooks Last Line: Western hills. The sun all haze. Read the poems of my teachers and go %back to bed Subject(s): Autumn; Constellations; Seasons CONTRA MORTEM: THE FALL, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still after the clapper cracked the bell Last Line: In the histories of anguish quietly told Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall CONTRACT, by KAREN THEMSTRUP Poem Source First Line: This fall, all the leaves die Last Line: The body can arrange its own murder Subject(s): Absence; Autumn; Death; Leaves; Seasons COR MIO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still sometimes in my secret heart of hearts Last Line: Like summer, rouse one day the slumbering sense? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Hearts; Roses; Seasons CORN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There is a plant you often see Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons COUNTERPOINT: TWO ROOMS, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He, in the room above, grown old and tired Last Line: The slow grey clouds go slowly gainst the sky Subject(s): Seasons; Death; Man-women Relationships; Despair; Happiness CRAB-APPLE, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Crab-apples, crab-apples, out in the wood Last Line: In four or five acorn-cups, locked with a key %in a cupboard of mine at the root of the tree Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons CRADLE LOGIC OF AUTUMN, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Each instant comes with a price, the blue-edged bill Last Line: The heart alone given power to recite %its faith, what a cradled life finds emblematic Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons CRICKET, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: At the cricket's song %a green star Last Line: Is clothed in splendor Subject(s): Autumn; Creation; Crickets; Prisons And Prisoners; Seasons CROCUS, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Crocus of yellow, new and gay Last Line: Dance then fairies, for joy, and sing %the song of the coming again of spring Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons CROCUSES, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They come / by stealth, spreading Subject(s): Crocuses; Plants; Seasons; Planting; Planters CROCUSES, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They come %by stealth, spreading Last Line: Of an army still massing %just to the south Subject(s): Crocuses; Plants; Seasons CROSS MY HEART, by EVELYN GRACE FERGUSON Poem Text First Line: Spring is a young girl, pink and white Last Line: -- and rest awhile with winter, death's envoy. Subject(s): Life; Seasons CROWNS OF FIRE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Autumn draws its crowns of fire %as in a wakeful sleep Last Line: I am happy galloping in this autumn of reddish horses Subject(s): Autumn; Hearts; Love; Seasons; Shadows; Solitude CROWS, by ZUELLA STERLING Poem Text First Line: The february crows have come Last Line: And in the fall, the last. Subject(s): Birds; Crows; February; Seasons DALLOW'S BLUFF, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An autumn pall of heat hung sultrily over Last Line: And time swept on and dallow's landing forgot. Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Marriage; Prostitution; Seasons; Fall; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Harlots; Whores; Brothels DANCE OF THE LEAVES, by LOUISE ABNEY Poem Source First Line: The autumn leaves are dancing down Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons DANCE, MY SWEET!, by GAYLEN SHANNON Poem Text First Line: Dance, you wanton autumn, dance! Last Line: Soon, too soon, you'll wear a shroud... Subject(s): Seasons DARK DAYS OF AUTUMN, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dark days of autumn grows cloudy and rainy Last Line: Rauk and mist are for ever in sight Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons DAVID AND BATHSHUA: SPRING SONG, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: How joyous the spring is! Last Line: The daffodil glade. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Seasons; Spring; Woods DAY IN OCTOBER, by MARY PRUDENCE MORTON Poem Text First Line: Little day lost out of april Last Line: Night is coming. It is a long way home. Subject(s): Seasons DAYS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Every sort of day together Last Line: In sunny or in windy weather. Subject(s): Calendars; January; Seasons; Time; Weather DAYS LIKE THESE, by ELLA ELIZABETH EGBERT Poem Source First Line: I like the tangled brakes and briers Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons DE RERUM NATURA, LIBER PRIMUS: BOOK 1. LINES 176-209, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why only in the spring are roses borne Last Line: To all things, which distinguisheth their kind. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Seasons; Spring 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 DECEMBER HILLS, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: White fur Last Line: They gather themselves together %under the wind %to hurl their stony songs %into the night Subject(s): Seasons 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 DEDICATION TO POEMS AND BALLADS, 1ST SERIES, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea gives her shells to the shingle Last Line: Night sinks on the sea. Variant Title(s): Dedication: 1865 Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Sea; Seasons; Wind; World; Ocean DEPARTURE POEM, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn ending Last Line: Clamshells on the beach Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho Subject(s): Autumn; Farewell; Seasons DID WE ABOLISH FROST, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography Last Line: Is optional with us Variant Title(s): Poem: 1014; Poem: 102 Subject(s): Seasons DILL, by HEATHER DUBROW Poem Source First Line: As rash and improbable as soprano Last Line: Losses into greens %and green trumps brown Subject(s): Autumn; Gardens And Gardening; Seasons DO YOU KNOW?, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you know the grapes are purpling Last Line: You would know that autumn's here. Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Fall DOLOUR OF AUTUMN, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet'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 DROUGHT, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: Our blue planet Last Line: Out beyond the edge of town %hot dry %the dying corn prays %in the fields Subject(s): Seasons 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 DRY AUTUMN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source 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 DUALITIES, by M. H. THATCHER Poem Text First Line: Two laws of motion rule our ancient earth Last Line: To live by law, the task of sighted man! Subject(s): Earth; Life; Nature; Seasons; World 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 ELDERBERRY, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Tread quietly Last Line: Unseen I watch them, safe and snug! Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons 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 SEASON, by JULIE GOLDMAN Poem Source First Line: Washed and dried, my laundry smells 'spring fresh,' Last Line: Face up in a storage box that smells of cedar, like a casket Subject(s): Laundry And Laundering; Seasons END OF SEASON, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: It was a month like october Last Line: With the last tip of the year Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Seasons END OF SUMMER, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: Before this hiatus, the summer was assiduous and distant Last Line: Take their seats like jockeys mounted on horses Subject(s): Seasons; Summer END OF WINTER, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: We welcome jack frost when he comes Last Line: Springtime's coming—run, jack, run! Subject(s): March (month); Seasons; Spring ETERNAL BEAUTY, by GRACE EVELYN BROWN Poem Text First Line: Do not regret the passing on of spring Last Line: Against a leaden sky. Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Seasons; Spring EVEN THE LEAVES, by SCOTT HORTON Poem Text First Line: No blighting frost has fallen Last Line: Harsh voices prophesying. Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Fall EVENING, by MALCOLM MERRITT Poem Text First Line: As leaves go down to autumn Last Line: From the peace of midian. Subject(s): Autumn; Evening; Seasons; Summer; Fall; Sunset; Twilight EVERY FALL, THE SAME, by DAVID JAMES SMITH Poem Source First Line: The green goes in september Last Line: Leap and sing in close to the center Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons EX LIBRIS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the stream, where the ground is soft Last Line: No title, no name. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Cold; Earth; Seasons; Snow; Winter; World EXCHANGE, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: Grey clouds jostle the tops Last Line: On empty branches %loosely fastened - %sparrows Subject(s): Seasons EXULTATION, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rain surpasses itself. It has gone beyond itself to the contours of a Last Line: To exult at the brilliant fulfillment of a summer day Subject(s): Rain; Seasons; Summer; Weather EYE REFLECTING THE GOLD OF FALL, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Silver is the ruby's faded glare Last Line: Banging like grain like the door against ice air Subject(s): Autumn; Cosmology; Seasons; Travel; Weather FACING INTO IT; FOR LARRY LEVIS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet'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 FAIRY TALE, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: They don't tell you Last Line: And that she opened her eyes %to a whirlwind %of white seeds Subject(s): Seasons FAITH, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: If on this night of still, white cold Last Line: And immortality. Subject(s): Faith; Seasons; Spring; Winter; Belief; Creed FAITH, by MILDRED BENTLEY LEE Poem Text First Line: Autumn, - and the trees are stripped Last Line: Oh faithless heart, why weep? Why weep? Subject(s): Autumn; Faith; Seasons; Fall; Belief; Creed FALL, by RUTH GLASCOTT Poem Text First Line: Fall comes / with the wind Last Line: With silver frost. Subject(s): Autumn; Cold; Seasons; Fall FALL, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, be content - our door that opens wide Last Line: And like a lion shakes its golden mane %and leaps upon the world Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons FALL, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As if any army rose out of one grave Last Line: Goes bluely as before, itself and nothing more Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons FALL, by HARRIET ZINNES Poem Source First Line: It came suddenly. You had created it. It had not been there before. This Last Line: Not created that. But who had planted the fig tree in that northern %garden? Subject(s): Autumn; Creation; Fig Trees; Mourning; Seasons FALL ASTERS, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: The asters, pale as my weakness Last Line: Their amen is the kneeling world Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons FALL DAY IN CHANG'AN, by LI YIN Poem Source First Line: Amidst tall trees the sounds of fall are late entering my dreams Last Line: Even without watershield broth or roast perch to provoke them, my thoughts still turn toward home Subject(s): Autumn; Homecoming; Seasons FALL FIELDS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sober-golden fields lie soaked in light Last Line: Turns paler blue above such tapestry. Subject(s): Autumn; Fields; Light; Rugs; Seasons; Fall; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Carpets FALL FOLIAGE CALLED BATHERS & DANCERS, by ALEXANDRIA PEARY Poem Source First Line: I said, I want friendships, not love Last Line: Commercials flicker like dolphins in ocean light Subject(s): Autumn; Relationships; Seasons FALL IN WOOSTER, OHIO, by JOHN KOOISTRA Poem Source First Line: Leaves on the roof next door Last Line: When the chair %comes down Subject(s): Autumn; Ohio; Seasons FALLEN LEAVES, by DORA DICKSON MCBROOM Poem Text First Line: I strolled o'er wooded, wind - swept hills Last Line: Because of you, my dears. Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Fall FALLEN LEAVES, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the frost-stripped forest boughs, the Last Line: We need not grieve to lie forgot, like sere leaves 'neath the tree! Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Leaves; Life; Seasons; Trees; Fall; Woods FALLTIME, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gold of a ripe oat straw, gold of a southwest moon Last Line: Is there something finished? And some new beginning on the way? Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall FAMILY TREES, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: Let fall, sparrow leaves, let fall Last Line: We are going, going, going Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons FAREWELL TO AUTUMN, by JULIA FIELD BROWN Poem Text First Line: Mother autumn! Do not go! Last Line: I loved you so . . . Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall FAREWELL TO SUMMER, by NINA HEMBLING Poem Text First Line: A chill in the air at evening Last Line: I hold you in my heart. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall FAREWELL TO THE BLUE HOUSE, by ROBERT SCHAEFFER PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: My favorite time of year was fall Last Line: Somewhere. Somedays I felt as if %I could walk across that water Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons FEBRUARY SUITE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Song, / angry bush Last Line: A long year has gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Memory; Seasons; Time; Winter FIRST DAY OF FALL, by XIA YUNYING Poem Source First Line: The autumn winds bring rain across the southern pavilion Last Line: At her leisure, the maid plays the konghou by herself Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: No more barefoot Last Line: Trough our soles now %and it really doesn't know us %anymore Subject(s): Seasons FIRST SNOW, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Fresh snow, first snow Last Line: Let the snow come down hard Subject(s): Cold; December; Seasons; Snow; Winter FIRST SNOWFALL, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: Out of the grey Last Line: And our tongues will taste %the cold vanilla %of this early winter day Subject(s): Seasons FISHERMAN'S SONG OF FOUR SEASONS, SELS., by YUN SONDO Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Seasons FIVE POEMS OF GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE: IV. AUTUMN, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the fog a farmer with a hobbled leg Last Line: In the fog two grey silhouettes pass by Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons FLAX FLOWER, by MARY HOWITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the little flax flower! Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Autumn; Flax; Nature; Seasons FLYWAY, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: A feather lifts Last Line: And we will be alone %holding only a feather %against the cold Subject(s): Seasons 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 FOOLIN' WID DE SEASONS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seems lak folks is mighty curus Last Line: We was put hyeah fu' to live! Subject(s): Seasons FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 7. SPRING ARRIVED, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We will carol all the day Last Line: Goes the pageant in a trice. Subject(s): Hearts; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs 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 FOR OLD LOVERS, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: The sap is bubbling in the tree Last Line: Of a wood fire at night. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Seasons; Spring FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY, PHILIP, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A superabundance, an excess, a plethora of greetings Last Line: And those far off peaks shining pure and rare Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Colorado (state); Grief; Leaves; Loss; Mountains; Seasons FOUR SEASONS, by POLLY BRODY Poem Source First Line: October blares flamboyant Last Line: Which looped, deft thread, %through her fingers Subject(s): Seasons 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 FOURTH OF JULY, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: Tonight the air explodes! Last Line: Walking home %we have the cold stars %and fireflies %tangledin the grass Subject(s): Seasons FRIENDS, by L. G. WARNER Poem Source First Line: North wind came whistling through the wood Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons FROM A MOTOR IN MAY, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves of autumn and the buds of spring Last Line: The leaves of autumn guard the buds of spring. Subject(s): Autumn; May (month); Nature; Order; Seasons; Spring; Fall FROM SEASON TO SEASON, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: But yesterday / I walked with fay Last Line: For fay has gone and married! Subject(s): Change; Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Seasons; Male-female Relations 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 FUNERAL IN AUTUMN IN MEMORY OF DICK WATHEN, by EDWARD LOCKE Poem Source First Line: One half of spring curls up in autumn's doubt Last Line: One half of spring curls up in autumn's doubt %each wintry death must let the summer out Variant Title(s): Funeral In Autum Subject(s): Death; Seasons; Time 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 GATHERING LEAVES, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spades take up leaves Last Line: And who's to say where %the harvest shall stop? Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons GENERAL LEW WALLACE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, death, thou mightiest of all Last Line: Above the pagan throne. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Flags; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The GENTIAN, by KATE LOUISE BROWN Poem Source First Line: In spring I found the violet Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons GIFT AND COUNTRY IN THE FALL: A LONG-DISTANCE ECLOGUE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Morrison. Hello! Hello! Is that you, wetherbee? Last Line: Later, you'd better look for us in town. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Autumn; Cities; Country Life; Seasons; Fall; Urban Life GIVE THANKS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Autumn day, fruitful day! Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons GOD'S WEATHER: APRIL, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The shadows fall soft down the haw-whitened hillside Last Line: The wooing soft south of his weather, god's weather. Subject(s): Orchards; Seasons; Spring 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 GOING NORTH, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the soft south where, leaping like a / leopard Last Line: Death nears with tongue and gestures imbecile. Subject(s): Aging; Death; Love; Seasons; Time; Dead, The GOLDEN HOUR, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: Of all the year this is the most golden Last Line: Let me not die before the golden hour! Subject(s): Colors; Harvest; Seasons GOLDEN HOUR, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the one enchanted minute Last Line: To-morrow looms a golden sorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Gold; Seasons; Spring GOLDEN OCTOBER, by WALTER E. ISENHOUR Poem Text First Line: October is the golden month Last Line: When heaven's crown appears. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall GOLDENROD, by MRS. F. J. LOVEJOY Poem Source First Line: Tell me, sunny goldenrod Subject(s): Autumn; Goldenrod; Seasons GOLDENROD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: How in the world did I happen to bloom Subject(s): Autumn; Goldenrod; Seasons GOOD-BY SUMMER, by CAROLINE CONVERSE Poem Text First Line: O summer, you have said good - by once more Last Line: And o the splendor of your golden days! Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Summer; Fall GOOD-NIGHT TO THE SEASON, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good-night to the season! 'tis over! Last Line: Good-night to the season--good-night! Subject(s): Seasons GOODBYE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sounds of the seas grow fainter Last Line: As night shuts out the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Day; Nature; Night; Seasons; Bedtime GORGEOUS DEATH, by GEORGE HERBERT NELSON Poem Text First Line: The path along the river's side Last Line: Was dying in a flash of glory. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall GOSSIP OF THE NUTS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Said the shagbark to the chestnut Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons GRACKLE AT THE BREAK OF DAY, by JAMES MICHAEL ROBBINS Poem Source First Line: Gray autumn Last Line: The eye a moon in grackle sky Subject(s): Autumn; Grackles; Seasons GRASSES AND TREES, by FUMIYA NO YASUHIDE Poem Source Last Line: There comes no autumn Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons GRAY AFTERMATH, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Text First Line: Seasons are very much like men Last Line: A sky of april stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Change; Seasons GRIEF, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Exultant whirlwind wrung the branches Last Line: Inaudibly, remembering. Subject(s): Grief; Seasons; Sorrow; Sadness GYPSY HEAVEN, by JOAN BUCKLEY Poem Text First Line: When all the seasons forming life have passed Last Line: Where I may dance beneath a laughing sky. Subject(s): Heaven; Seasons; Paradise HAIKU, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A crow Last Line: Autumn evening Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons HAIKU, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What voice Last Line: In the autumn wind Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons HAIKU, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sick on a journey Last Line: The withered fields Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons HALLOWEEN GHOST STORY, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: Who lurks there Last Line: Cold empty eyes. I see %the wild hair %blowing. I see the bone %that presses %the bell! Subject(s): Seasons HALLOWMAS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You know, the year's not always may Last Line: You know, the year's not always may. Subject(s): Seasons HAPPINESS THROUGH THE YEAR, by J. MARGARET CRUTE ASHCRAFT Poem Text First Line: Give me a good book Last Line: And life seems just only begun. Subject(s): Books; Nature; Seasons; Reading HAREBELL, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: O bells, on stems so thin and fine! Last Line: Till daybreak wakens, cold and grey, %and elfin music fades away Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons 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 HARVEST SONG, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more amidst the harvest fields Last Line: Eternal be the praise. Subject(s): Harvest; Nature; Seasons HAWTHORN, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: These thorny branches bore the may Last Line: And hungry birdies shall be fed %on these when days are cold Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons 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 HAZEL-NUT, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Slowly, slowly, growing Last Line: Come and fill your pockets, %but leave a few to spare Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons 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 HEART UNBROKEN AND THE COURAGE FREE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source 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 HEAT, by SUSAN HAHN Poem Source First Line: Soon the dazed glory heat will be replaced by leaves - Last Line: Touch how it burns into my sight %for when you are not Subject(s): Heat; Seasons; Summer HENDECASYLLABICS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the month of the long decline of roses Last Line: "iron blossom of frost is bound for ever." Subject(s): Flowers; Seasons; Summer; Wind 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 HERE'S A WILLOW BOUGH: SONGS OF THE THIRTEENTH MONTHS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: And still the spring wind is gloomy and cold Last Line: How will I ever get a steady one to care for me? Subject(s): Seasons 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 HIGHGATE EASTER, by F. D. REEVE Poem Source First Line: Snowdrops in the corner of the garden Last Line: Bursts in each garden with a mummers' show %of grace as green leaves overtake the woods Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Seasons; Time HITHER, MEADOW GOSSIP, TELL ME!, by H. PRESCOTT BEACH Poem Source Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons HO, FOR SLUMBERLAND!', by EBEN EUGENE REXFORD Poem Source First Line: A little song for bedtime, when, robed in gowns of white Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons HOAR-FROST, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN Poem Text First Line: The wee folk, the fairy folk, have shaken out their laces Last Line: And fairies' lacy petticoats all hanging out to air. Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal Subject(s): Christmas Trees; Seasons; Winter 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 HOJOKI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Venus in the pale green sky Last Line: Busy all night long tonight Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Spring; Summer; Winter HOLLY, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: O, I am green in winter-time Last Line: For who so well-beloved and merry %as the scarlet holly berry? Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons HOPE, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The weariest watch must sometime end Last Line: Sleeps the summer rose? Subject(s): Seasons HORSE CHESTNUT, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: My conkers, they are shiny things Last Line: O laddies, only wait a bit, %I'll shake them down to you! Subject(s): Chestnut Trees; Fairies; Flowers; Seasons HOUND, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Source First Line: Some are sick for spring and warm winds blowing Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons HOW JOHN QUITE THE FARM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody on the old farm here but mother, me and john Last Line: As you'd admit, ef you could see the way the crops turns out! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Family Life; Farm Life; Seasons; Relatives; Agriculture; Farmers 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 I HAVE A MESSAGE UNTO THEE (WRITTEN IN SICKNESS), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green sprout the grasses Last Line: "but ripe eternity." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; God; Love; Seasons; Dead, The I KEEP THINKING, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: I keep thinking of the green men and women Last Line: And the last grasshopper jumped into winter snow Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons I LOOK AROUND, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: In the autumn evening Subject(s): Autumn; Evening; Seasons I WANT TO GO BACK, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Isn't that a wound? Subject(s): Boys; Children; Farm Life; Nature; Seasons; Swamps 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 ICICLES, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: Have you tasted icicles Last Line: All day they fall %chiming %into the pockmarked %snow Subject(s): Seasons IDYLL 6. CLEODAMUS AND MYRSON, by BION Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What sweet for you has summer or the spring Last Line: There is for men an equal day and night. Subject(s): Seasons 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 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 AUTUMN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I speak this poem now with grave and level voice Last Line: I cry to you beyond this bitter air Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons IMMORTAL BEAUTY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath october's paling sun how fair Last Line: Like these winged florets, this october day. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Autumn; Beauty; Immortality; October; Seasons; Fall IN A COLUMBARIUM, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn sun still bravely streams Last Line: Love soars immortal to the skies. Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Past; Roman Empire; Seasons; Time; Fall IN AN AUTUMN WOOD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, too, o bronze-eyed darling of the feast Last Line: I love thy loveliness that hears no cry. Subject(s): Autumn; Hearts; Love; Pain; Seasons; Fall; Suffering; Misery IN AND OUT OF SEASON, by MABEL HAUGHTON COLLYER Poem Text First Line: Oh, sing me in december / a song of hazy june Last Line: Beneath a balmy sky! Subject(s): Seasons 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 SHIN TONGCHUN Poem Source First Line: We love deeper in autumn Last Line: Desiring to be like the salvias blazing there Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons IN AUTUMN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet'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 COVENTRY, by JAMES J. DALY Poem Source First Line: My friends, the leaves, who used to entertain me Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons IN EARLY AUTUMN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a day when the trees are exchanging the cured gold of the sun Last Line: Under this hill of bones that calls my flesh its home Subject(s): Autumn; Colors; Seasons; Trees; Fall IN FOR WINTER, OUT FOR SPRING, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: I am the youngest so they call Last Line: We will all be %in for winter %very soon Subject(s): Family Life; Seasons IN NOVEMBER, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under my trees of green and gold Last Line: Their memory, after all, is sweet. Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; November; Seasons 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 SEPTEMBER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mornings frosty grow, and cold Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons IN THE FALL, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the fall tired father's fancy gravely turns Last Line: Back. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall IN THE 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 GREEN AND GALLANT SPRING, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: While the rain is on the roof Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Seasons 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 IN THE PROCESSION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "spring comes: and baseball, robust flower, in every meadow's seen" Last Line: As often sighs is the man who was -- and now is not -- a boy Subject(s): Aging;old Age;seasons;time INCREDIBLE!, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It must be I am mistaken; one bird note Last Line: Who have winged with poetry beyond all prose! Subject(s): Hearts; Seasons; Walking INDIAN SUMMER, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: Raise the curtain Last Line: This one act %with the curtain going up %and the stage %on fire Subject(s): Seasons INDIAN SUMMER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stillness that doth wait on change is here Last Line: Shalt dream again—how dying nature smiled. Subject(s): Indian Summer; Nature; Seasons INSIDE OUT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Look at leaves turning inside out Last Line: Leaves turning. Stay. Move on. Stay. Move on. Subject(s): Aging; Seasons; Wind INSPIRATION, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The common paths by which we walk and wind Last Line: Of a star-filled winter's night. Subject(s): Inspiration; Seasons; Walking INTERIOR WITH FOREST AUTUMN (DETAIL WITH STAGS), by DINU ADAM Poem Source First Line: The stag herds descend from the mountains Last Line: And you smile upon its grizzled breathing Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Seasons INTERLUDE, by ALICE TAFT STROWD Poem Text First Line: With the first golden promise of autumn Last Line: Relinquished to frost again. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall INTERMEZZO; PASTORAL: 5. AUTUMN TWILIGHT: GREY AND GOLD, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The long september evening dies Last Line: Lover with lover wandering. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall INTERPRETATION, by CAROLINE FINKELSTEIN Poem Source First Line: I saw the treeline from the center Last Line: That agent of mystery, all tactics, really, %and mouth Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons INTRUDER, by PADRAIG J. DALY Poem Source First Line: You came from that early time Last Line: Trampling as you walked %all my glorious borders Subject(s): Autumn; Cruelty; Seasons INVITATION TO THE COUNTRY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now 'tis spring on wood and wold Last Line: And in the breast of man as well. Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; Seasons; Spring INVOCATIONS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come along, springtime, your apron full of flowers Last Line: Cleansing all the hedgerow, cleansing all my heart! Subject(s): Seasons IS LIFE WORTH LIVING, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is life worth living? Yes, so long Subject(s): Courage; Religion; Seasons IT CAN'T BE SUMMER, -- THAT GOT THROUGH, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: With cuffs of chrysolite! Subject(s): Seasons 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 IT ROLLS ON, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Irresolute, pausing on a doubtful journey Last Line: Here, in this place, each year Subject(s): Autumn; Past; Seasons IT'S AUTUMN IN LODZ, FR. FOUR HAIKUS FROM POLAND, by TAD KIELCZEWSKI Poem Source Last Line: With all six bullets Subject(s): Autumn; Poland; Seasons JOURNAL, SELS., by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Many leaves of the cultivated cherry are turned yellow, and a very few Last Line: May work.' Subject(s): Fields; Fruit; Harvest; Rain; Seasons; Spring; Umbrellas JULY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blue july, bright july Last Line: To the nightingale's 'sweet-sweet.' Subject(s): July; Seasons; Summer JUNE, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: Everything is light Last Line: We have earned it - this gift %of days torn slowly %from the long calendar Subject(s): Seasons 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 JUVENILE ALMANAC, by DOROTHY BUERGER Poem Text First Line: We have no need of calendars Last Line: Store b.B. Guns and reel! Subject(s): Boys; Seasons 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 L'ENVOI, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've passed the grim and threatening warders Last Line: I know my songs are nearest fame. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Grief; Seasons; Trees; Sorrow; Sadness LADY ISABELLA (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heart warm as summer, fresh as spring Last Line: And these had lady isabelle. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Seasons; Women LADY MONTREVOR (SEE MATURIN'S 'WILD IRISH BOY'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not look for love that is a dream Last Line: No man shall mock me after this my day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Love; Seasons; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness LAKE, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: This winter day Last Line: We feel the summer water %rocking our summer %boat - %the cold perch tugging %at our dreams Subject(s): Seasons LAKE COMO IN AUTUMN, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From como's curving base of blue Last Line: The sun will bring the spring again. Subject(s): Autumn; Beauty; Lakes; Seasons; Fall; Pools; Ponds LAND OF ALVARGONZALEZ: EARTH, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One morning in autumn Last Line: Orchard, beehives and fields Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Autumn; Blood; Fields; Seasons; Spain LANGUID SEPTEMBER, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: Under the trees, orange and green Last Line: Yellow maple leaves flutter down. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; September; Fall LAST DAY OF SCHOOL, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: Look out! Last Line: The doors and into %a serius collision %with %summer! Subject(s): Seasons LAST OF AUTUMN, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come bleak november in thy wildness come Last Line: Thro whose dim pains the 'prisond childern peep %and look in vain for summer and for play Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons LATE AUTUMN, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: October, - and the skies are cool and grey Last Line: His perfect harvesting; he sleeps at ease. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Autumn; Decay; Harvest; October; Seasons; Fall; Rot; Decadence LATE AUTUMN, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER Poem Text First Line: The fields are frayed with autumn. Grasses go Last Line: Earth's miracles of bloom are at an end. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall LATE AUTUMN IN THE QI-AN DISTRICT, by DU MU Poem Source First Line: When winds came to willow-lined shores Last Line: There's only an old man in a raincoat, %sitting there and fishing Subject(s): Autumn; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Seasons LATE IN OCTOBER, by THORA H. SEATON Poem Text First Line: An autumn leaf has fallen Last Line: And fragrant with many springs. Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Fall LATE LEAVES, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves are falling; so am I Last Line: And all things sweet. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall LATE NIGHT, UNDER THE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Honey of summer Subject(s): Seasons LATER IN LIFE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Summer heat, the first early morning Subject(s): Seasons; Time; Communication LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 7. MIDSUMMER, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst early sink away the starry twins Last Line: Of glowing june. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Flowers; Seasons; Summer; Sun LEAFING, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn twilights Last Line: As a jack-o'-lantern Subject(s): Autumn; Growth; Life; Seasons; Fall LEAFING, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn twilights Last Line: Listen, you tell me, listen, %we are making a shelter inside you Subject(s): Autumn; Growth; Life; Seasons LEAVES, by JOHN LEE HIGGINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I shall think of autumn to the end Last Line: And shall not grieve again at autumn's loss. Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Trees; Fall LEAVES, by 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 AND THE WIND, by GEORGE COOPER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come little leaves,' said the wind one day Last Line: The snow laid a coverlid over their heads Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Wind LEAVES IN THE YARD, by JOHN DANIEL PARSON Poem Text First Line: Go gather leaves and heap them into / pyres! Last Line: Buried, like leaves, in leaves of wilderness. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Leaves; Nature; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The LESSON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A corn-stalk glanced down at some grasses Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons LETTER TO A PAINTER IN ENGLAND, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where you rot under the strict gray industry Last Line: That would inform the blind world of its flesh Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Letters; Seasons; West Indies LIFE, by METTA ELAINE WALSH Poem Text First Line: Life is like a sonata, depicting Last Line: Amen. Subject(s): Seasons 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 LIFE'S SEASONS, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The seasons come, and the seasons go Last Line: But god is our father -- 't is all we know. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): God; Seasons LIFE-MUSIC, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sound, jocund strains; on pipe and viol sound Last Line: Sweet as the songs of spring. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Seasons LIGHT LINGERS LONG, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light lingers long as winter wears to spring Last Line: Light lingers long. Subject(s): Light; Seasons LILAC TIME, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winter was fierce, my dear Last Line: Will make me form-I-dable. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs; Old Age; Seasons; Winter LINES WRITTEN IN BOSTON ON A BEAUTIFUL AUTUMNAL DAY, by SARAH MARGARET FULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As late we lived upon the gentle stream Last Line: I would not nature these last loving words in vain should say Alternate Author Name(s): Fuller, Margaret; Ossoli, Marchioness; Ossoli, Margaret Fuller Subject(s): Autumn; Boston; Seasons LITTLE BY LITTLE (4), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: While the new years come, and the old years go Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons LITTLE LEAVES, by GEORGE COOPER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We must go,' sighed little ruby Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons LITTLE NUT PEOPLE, by E. J. NICHOLSON Poem Source First Line: Old mistress chestnut once lived in a burr Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons LOAD, by JOHN HEWITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today we carted home the last brown sheaf Last Line: On withered golden-rod and snapdragon %and tarnished marigold Subject(s): Autumn; Harvest; Seasons LONESOME SEASON, by YI CHANGHUI Poem Source First Line: Autumn is well on ts way Last Line: Now is the time for us %to meditate in piety Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons LONGINGS, by A. DE BERNARDI JR. Poem Text First Line: Oh, the quakers are a - turning, and my weary heart is yearning Last Line: Fall has flung his vivid paintbrush with a free and flowing hand! Subject(s): Autumn; Longing; Seasons; Fall LOOKING DOWN IN THE RAIN, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: In the big puddle Last Line: I see small faces %and yelow leaves swimming %under water! Subject(s): Seasons LOST, by EMMA MAGIN BISSELL Poem Text First Line: Fluttering leaves by the wind are tossed Last Line: Did you say farewell when I plucked that rose? Subject(s): Autumn; Loss; Seasons; Fall LOST SHADES, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many times the flow'rs have blown Last Line: You copied in our day of bliss. Subject(s): Loss; Seasons LOST SUMMER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whither are you fled Last Line: Summertime and roses? Subject(s): Seasons; Summer LOST: THE SUMMER, by RAYMOND MACDONALD ALDEN Poem Source First Line: Where has the summer gone? Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons LOVE IN AUTUMN, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the curtains of the rain Last Line: Or the murmur of the leaves. Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Love; Nature; Seasons; Fall LOVE IN OCTOBER, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fields, the clouds, the farms and farming Last Line: These many loves would founder in that night. Subject(s): Autumn; Farm Life; Love; Seasons; Spring; Fall; Agriculture; Farmers LOVE IN THE AUTUMN, by P. R. MINAHAN Poem Text First Line: I cared not for autumn weather Last Line: And danced on the garnered sheaves. Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Seasons; Fall LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 58, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Half in a dream Last Line: Grows fainter and fades away Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Seasons; Time LOVE'S ACCOUNTING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunburnt summer less devours Last Line: Love, for love of you. Subject(s): Forests; Hearts; Love; Pain; Seasons; Summer; Woods; Suffering; Misery LOVELY MONOCHROMES OF WINTER, by KAREN L. ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Then comes the talking easily reconstructed then Last Line: -ungainly lives at best well-put savagery %at worst the visible bone the disappearing Subject(s): Relationships; Seasons; Solitude; Winter LOVERS' LEAP, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In greece I found the place, though earth Last Line: And leap to find thee where thou art! Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Seasons LUNG-MEN VILLAGE, AUTUMN, by HSU HSUAN Poem Source First Line: Refusing worldly worries Last Line: A hill, a tree. An empty drifting boat Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Zen Buddhism LWONESOMENESS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet'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 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 MAGIC, by MARIE TODD Poem Text First Line: A candle blooms upon the sill Last Line: There's may upon my window ledge. Subject(s): May (month); Nature; Seasons; Winter MAGNOLIA, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This year spring and summer decided Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Seasons; Spring; Magnolias MAIN AUTUMN, by HELEN K. RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: When apple trees begin to bear Last Line: And I am clothed in polar air, %and itchy woolen underwear Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons MAPLE AND SUMACH, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet'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 MAPLES IN FALL, by JR. A. POULIN Poem Source First Line: These trees tremble with a precious Last Line: The bulk of the smallest human need Subject(s): Autumn; Maple Trees; Seasons MARCH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A sodden gray in the chilly dawn Last Line: And this is march Subject(s): Cold;march (month);seasons;spring;winter MARCH, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With rushing winds and gloomy skies Last Line: "march!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): American Civil War; Seasons; U.s. - History MARCH TWENTY-FIRST, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: Last night Last Line: Last night %the soft wet air %opened a river %unlocked a waterfall %splashed our dreams %with rain Subject(s): Seasons MARCH: AN ODE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ere frost-flower and snow-blossom faded and fell, and the splendor of winter ha Last Line: Of the winds of march. Subject(s): March (month); Nature; Seasons; Time MARIGOLDS, by SUSAN HARTLEY Poem Source First Line: Dame nature years and years ago Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons MARSH MARIGOLDS, by NORA (CHESSON) HOPPER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the water-meadows Last Line: Against the time of sleep Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Marigolds; Seasons MATER DOLOROSA, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again maternal autumn grieves Last Line: Who died upon a tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Autumn; Crucifixion; Seasons; Fall; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion MATTHEW'S SONG, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Every time the season changes %we will have a party Last Line: We slide downhill into %summer Subject(s): Children; Seasons; Singing And Singers; Weather MAUDE AND THE CRICKET, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Good night, dear maudie,' I softly said Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons MAY FIRST: TWO INCHES OF SNOW, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: Yesterday Last Line: And smacked every tulip %and jonquil and lilac %blossom and windshield %and my face %with snow. Now, Subject(s): Seasons MAYTIME IN MIDWINTER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A new year gleams on us, tearful Last Line: And life, through love of you, love. Subject(s): Grief; Holidays; New Year; Seasons; Sorrow; Sadness ME, by JANE WELLS BLISS Poem Text First Line: My soul is made of - what do you guess? Last Line: Fleur-de-lis and butterflies. Subject(s): Seasons; Soul 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 MEDITATION IN AUTUMN, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: High with red leaves and sounds sharp sweeping Last Line: Into what calm seasons do we come at length? Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O that immortal day of june Last Line: Of the days when earth and sky were one! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Children; Seasons; Childhood MERRY AUTUMN, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's all a farce-these tales they tell Last Line: Just melts into thanksgiving. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall MESSAGE TO CALIBAN, by ERIC HOWARD Poem Source First Line: Our one fall sign Last Line: His words cathedral-sized %and in those hands leaves Subject(s): Autumn; Fathers And Sons; Labor And Laborers; Leaves; Seasons METAPHOR IN OCTOBER, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: At what hour a man finds his dying Last Line: And mountains fall on us Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons MIDNIGHT, THE WANING MOON, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The first flowers of autumn Subject(s): Night; Seasons MIDWINTER WALK IN CENTRAL PARK, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What heather is parading along the park in a Last Line: Underbrush. Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Death; Nature; Seasons; Winter; Dead, The MIGRATION, by ANNE REYNOLDS VOEGTLEN Poem Source First Line: As flocks lift up from a low-tide shore Last Line: Beyond the singular, needing for completion %the briefest period of northern sun Subject(s): Autumn; Birds; Migration; Seasons MILKY WAY, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: In the far north Last Line: Under the moon %small clingin starts %dazzle my boots Subject(s): Seasons MISCHIEF NIGHT, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: After dinners in kitchens, the black fire follows us Last Line: Bright deaths discovered, pumpkins smashed in the streets Subject(s): Autumn; Family Life; Seasons MISSING SEASON, by DENISE RUE Poem Source First Line: It is a fluke spring Last Line: The crocus cocooned in eternal winter Subject(s): Seasons MITTENS, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: Inside my fuzzy mittens Last Line: They tickle my brother's neck %and point to the cold %moon %icing the fire escape Subject(s): Seasons MONTHS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Contorted by wind Last Line: Turns towards %the solstice Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Time MORNING, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: The april day Last Line: All the way to noon %under the songs %of robins! Subject(s): Seasons MOUNTAIN ASH, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: They thought me, once, a magic tree Last Line: The finest banquet of your lives %is here prepared for you Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons MUD, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: Your fingers can take Last Line: Want to step into it wet and cool %and smile %ten %wiggling %muddy %smiles! Subject(s): Seasons MULANHUA: AUTUMN NIGHT, by XU CAN Poem Source First Line: The night is cold, I cannot bear the keen west wind Last Line: While along the four walls autumn crickets compete in shrieking Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons MY AUTUMN, by MOON DUK-SOO Poem Source First Line: A ginkgo leaf like an angel's palm Last Line: Treading on a soul that moans in a metallic sound? Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons MY FRIEND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is my friend,' I said-- Last Line: "with ""still he is thy friend." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Friendship; Seasons; Sky MY HEAVEN, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the fresh, sweet charm of vernal skies in may Last Line: -- more frightful unto me than the midnight of the tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Death; Heaven; May (month); Nature; Seasons; Time; Dead, The; Paradise MY MAGGIE'S NO MORE, by JOHN BROWN (1810-1882) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twittering, twittering over the meadow Last Line: For despair rends my heart, since my maggie's no more. Subject(s): Death; Seasons; Dead, The NAME - OF IT - IS 'AUTUMN', by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Upon vermilion wheels Variant Title(s): Poem: 656; Poem: 46 Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons NAMING AUTUMN, by ALLAN BROWN Poem Source First Line: Walking for awhile in the creaky garden this afternoon and I thought of Last Line: At the stream's edge; the empty house. %images return Subject(s): Autumn; Names; Seasons NAN GEZI: AUTUMN THOUGHTS, by JI YINGHUAI Poem Source First Line: Asters enliven fall colors Last Line: Wild goose crying at the horizon Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons NARCISSUS, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Brown bulbs were buried deep Last Line: Winter's gone; here is spring- %easter again!' Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons NATIONAL FLOWER, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They ask me to vote for a national flower Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons NATURE'S MIRACLE, by DAVID FALLON Poem Source First Line: Autumn with chilling touch draws swiftly near Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons NAUGHTY LITTLE COMET, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There was a little comet who lived near the milky way Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons NECTARINES IN FEBRUARY, by KATHLEEN FLENNIKEN Poem Source First Line: What do children know of life Last Line: There are seasons only fit for wanting %to follow summer's sweetness Subject(s): Fruit; Innocence; Seasons; Summer NERVES GRIND QUIETLY IN THE TWILIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The eyes gaze quiet at the fading embers Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; October; Seasons NEW SPRING: 43, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Late autumnal mists all-dripping Last Line: Much beloved and beauteous wife! Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall NIGHT IN MID-AUTUMN, by K'O CHEN Poem Source First Line: Swift waters; soft, quiet Last Line: Moonlight has captured the black night Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Zen Buddhism NO AUTUMN IN MY COUNTRY, by MEENA ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tu fu wrote 'clustered Last Line: In his autumn meditation Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Tu Fu (712-770); Fall; Du Fu NO AUTUMN IN MY COUNTRY, by MEENA ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tu fu wrote 'clustered Last Line: Quickens their palms %these white chrysanthemums %are tumid.No autumn %in my country Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Tu Fu (712-770) NO AUTUMN SUN, by AMY REQUA RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Darkened and warm, the sacramento lies Last Line: Lays quiet hands upon this fruitful ground. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall NO TIME TO DIE, by SUDIE STUART HAGER Poem Text First Line: Dear lord, I must not leave this earth Last Line: Can find no fitting time to die! Subject(s): Seasons NOCTURNE FOR LATE SUMMER, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: Hot languid Last Line: Crickets will play %their andante cadenza %for fifteen bars add thirty-seven %the leaf %will %fall Subject(s): Seasons 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 NOTES FROM A CHILD OF PARADISE (COMPLETE), by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle of everything a voice Last Line: Witness now what will not be written nor ever said Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons NOTHING IS REAL IN OCTOBER, by CAROL B. DECANIO Poem Source First Line: The weather itself %undecided Last Line: Waiting for november %to begin Subject(s): October; Seasons; Weather NOVELS IN HAIKU: ONE: THE LYRIC, by ALYCE MILLER Poem Source First Line: First the falling snow, the temptation to cover, then the betrayal Last Line: Noisy as luster. Magnolia buds froze overnight. Then it was over Subject(s): Love; Seasons 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 SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Here comes our last storm with thunder Last Line: And the dust that settles in the cleavage %of ripe plums? Subject(s): Autumn; Catholics - United States; Seasons; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States NOVEMBER, by FERNANDO ANTONIO SILVA Poem Source First Line: The sunflowers we enjoyed together Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons NOVEMBER, by CHARD POWERS SMITH Poem Text First Line: The year returns, his armies in the air Last Line: Wounded, unconquerable, and alone. Subject(s): Autumn; November; Seasons; Fall NOVEMBER 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 NOVEMBER TREE, by MARY CAROTHERS DILL Poem Text First Line: There is magnificence in one gaunt tree Last Line: (a weathered strength is beauty, too, it seems!) Subject(s): Seasons; Trees NOW THAT SPRINGS IS HERE..., by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: Lift your winter face Last Line: A bright embroidery %of birdsong %to hang from our windows Subject(s): Seasons NUDISTS, by FLOZARI ROCKWOOD Poem Text First Line: Shade trees stand everywhere undressed Last Line: Pastelled in rainbow sheen. Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton-hemingway, Flozari Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Trees; Fall NUTTING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come, robert and harry, come, lily and may! Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons O LOVED AND LOST, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit beside the sea this autumn day Last Line: And we are one in life for evermore! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Autumn; Loss; Sea; Seasons; Fall; Ocean OCTOBER, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: April adance in play Last Line: On the path of the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall OCTOBER, by JORGE CARRERA ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: October: nut and apple of the months Last Line: With your weights and measures Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons OCTOBER, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: In vain I see the trees still green Last Line: It is finished Subject(s): Nature; October; Seasons OCTOBER, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is no joy to me to sit Last Line: While the equinoctials blow. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall OCTOBER, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet'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 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, by JONES VERY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The frost is out, and in the open fields Last Line: Has sent before this herald of decay %to bid me heed before the approach of winter's sterner day Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons OCTOBER - A SKETCH, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In spring, in summer, in autumnal wane Last Line: Quiet and contemplation mantle all! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Autumn; Cold; Leaves; October; Seasons; Fall OCTOBER CAME AGAIN, by AVIS TURNER FRENCH Poem Text First Line: My pattern made for life was good to see Last Line: To beds of brown, and silver white with frost. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall OCTOBER CHANT, by MURIEL THURSTON LANCE Poem Text First Line: Amber...Russet...Scarlet...Yellow Last Line: Crimson... Amber... Russet... Gold. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall OCTOBER COBWEBS, by SANDRA M. GILBERT Poem Source First Line: Screen the garden in the late Last Line: To move and breathe Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons OCTOBER PASTEL, by THOMAS DUNCAN Poem Text First Line: We met in spring,' he said, and heard wild geese Last Line: "it gets dark early, doesn't it? ..."" she said." Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall OCTOBER'S BRIGHT BLUE WEATHER, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O suns and skies and clouds of june Last Line: October's bright blue weather. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons; Fall OCTOBER'S HEART OF GOLD, by JOY WILLIAMS HARMON Poem Text First Line: It was autumn, I remember Last Line: Giving october's heart pure gold. Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons; Fall OCTOBER'S PARTY, by GEORGE COOPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: October gave a party Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall OCTOBER'S PARTY, by GEORGE COOPER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: October gave a party Last Line: And then the party ended %in jolly 'hands around' Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons OCTOBER'S PARTY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: October gave a party Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons OCTOBER: 1861, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not changeful april, with her suns and showers Last Line: My life's decline—my solemn—last october. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Nature; October; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once in each revolving year Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Swallows; Seasons; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE ON AUTUMN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Adieu the pleasing rural scene Last Line: "one glorious, one eternal spring" Subject(s): Autumn;seasons; Fall ODE TO A PAIR OF SANDPIPERS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: No studious haunt this mossy nook! Last Line: For brighter pleasure! Subject(s): Autumn; Hearts; Nature; Sandpipers; Seasons; Fall ODE TO AUTUMN, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: Do not go, autumn Last Line: Like wooden crows %to walk in your limbo Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons ODE TO 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 ODES IV, 7. TO TORQUATUS. DIFFUGERE NIVES, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws Last Line: The love of comrades cannot take away. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Seasons; Time 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 OLD WINTER, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old winter's hobbling down the road Last Line: He's not such a bad old fellow. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Seasons OLD-MAN'S-BEARD, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: This is where the little elves Last Line: Say good-night, and go to sleep Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons ON AN AUTUMN DAY, THE WEATHER HAVING JUST CLEARED, by YANG WENLI Poem Source First Line: Swish, swish, a cool gust comes Last Line: Autumn colors merit intoning and chanting Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons ON AUTUMN, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet'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 OUR STREET, by LOUISE GOODSON Poem Text First Line: We almost know the season of the year Last Line: From nearly naked salesmen ten years old. Subject(s): Seasons ON PROTECTING YOURSELF FROM THE ELEMENTS, by CHARLES L. GROVE Poem Source First Line: Protecting yourself from the elements %is fairly elementary Last Line: Don't go out in yellow rain, %and don't eat yellow snow Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Weather 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 ONE FOR SAFE KEEPING, by JEFFERY DONALDSON Poem Source First Line: Under the plumb gold Last Line: I could watch the last one chime %and shimmer with the rest Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons ONE TREE IN AUTUMN, by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So little wind would ruin all this gold Last Line: This once ... This once ... For all I stayed to know. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Trees; Fall OREGON IN OCTOBER, by VIOLET M. HOWARD Poem Text First Line: Vining maple burning red Last Line: One wanders through october. Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons; Fall OSCHOPHORIKON; VINTAGE PROCESSIONAL, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The staffs are wreathed; move on, move on Last Line: From athens into phaleron. Subject(s): Autumn; Bacchus; Greece; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Rites & Ceremonies; Seasons; Summer; Fall; Greeks OTHER AFTERNOONS, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: I bend to listen to the song. From where might it come, if Last Line: Some shepherd was following in their tracks. And as he went, he sang Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons OTHER VOICES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Groaned the mill-wheel below Last Line: Voices of mock and unease. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Voices; Fall 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 OUT-BREEDERS, by TIMOTHY RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: To breed us out is a mistranslation Last Line: Moving south to another city that could stand to be so blessed Subject(s): Children; Seasons; Sex; Winter 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 PASSAGE, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: Remember Last Line: Barring the tunnel's end, %and in a splash of yellow %the crocus holds her %fingers %to the sun! Subject(s): Seasons PASTORAL: 4, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, as a tree, whose wintry twigs Last Line: Turn all its silver sides and tremble into song. Subject(s): Seasons 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 PERIWINKLE, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: In shady shrubby places Last Line: No great renown have I. Yet who %does not love periwinkle's blue? Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Periwinkle; Seasons PERSEID METEOR SHOWER, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: Unfastened Last Line: In our lake-mirror how %the ancient snakes break loose and fall %still hissing Subject(s): Seasons PERSEPHONE IN AUTUMN, by ANN KENISTON Poem Source First Line: In the season of rotting fruit, when Last Line: My poverty. What is endless %in me is the need to pay Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons PETER PAN, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Among the joys that winter brings Last Line: Of hyacinths and daffodils! Subject(s): London; Seasons PICTURE BOX, by BOB RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: In a world always afternoon summer the bald boy Last Line: Hand on the wood forehead buried against his arm Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Seasons PIECE FROM RUTH'S WARDROBE, by EMILY BEYER Poem Source First Line: Ruth puts on a light sweater Last Line: And heads home to clark and the house without memory Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Seasons PINE CAMP, by GORDON BAINE CLARK Poem Text First Line: There were the three of us and we were young Last Line: We hear winds in whisper with far-distant pines. Subject(s): Autumn; Camping; Seasons; Wind; Fall; Camps; Summer Camps PINE TREE, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: A tall, tall tree is the pine tree Last Line: Throwing cones for the squirrels to nibble- %I wish I were there to see! Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons PIRATE WIND, by MARY JANE CARR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn wind's a pirate Last Line: And laugh to see you run! Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Wind PLANE TREE, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: You will not find him in the wood Last Line: To deck the tree until the spring %comes back again! Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons PLANT SONG, by NELLIE M. BROWN Poem Source First Line: O where do you come from, berries red Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons POEM FOR THE INSECTS IN FALL, by WILLIAM JOSEPH MEISSNER Poem Source First Line: I have seen them Last Line: Their tiny opaque brushstrokes coating the windshield %like first frost Subject(s): Autumn; Insects; Seasons POEM IN AUTUMN, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: The sky is not the same; not brighter but Last Line: Trailing like smoke across the wounded air Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons POEM WRITTEN ON THE OCCASION OF EMPEROR TENJI'S ORDERING ..., by NUKADA Poem Source First Line: When the spring comes Last Line: There lies my regret: %autumn hills for me Subject(s): Seasons POEMS ON THE DEATH OF PRINCE HENRY: OF THE RAIN-BOW, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was ever nightly rain-bow seen? Last Line: Though clothed in a svmmer weed. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Night; Rainbows; Seasons; Tears; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Bedtime POETIC EPIGRAMS: 10. THE AUTUMN MOON, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long since the moon has found Last Line: In her desireless round. Subject(s): Autumn; Moon; Seasons; Fall POETIC EPIGRAMS: 3. AUTUMN SADNESS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From grief no hope could numb Last Line: Does autumn sadness come. Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Seasons; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness POINTS OF THE COMPASS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Said wind to the bright little weather vane Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons POLYANTHUS AND GRAPE HYACINTH, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: How do you do, grape hyacinth? Last Line: That's why I'm here, with my bells in spires %of blue Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons POMONA, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: The hive's full of honey, the steading of stacks Last Line: Perhaps not the goddess, but one of her girls! Subject(s): Apples; Autumn; Fruit; Seasons; Women; Fall POMPEY HEIGHTS, by ALBERT VANN FOWLER Poem Text First Line: When autumn fills the valleys Last Line: Its icy freshets yet. Subject(s): Nature; Rain; Seasons POPPY, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: The green wheat's a-growing Last Line: But still, red and splended, %I am there Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons PRAYER FOR MICHAELMAS, by VIOLA GERARD GARVIN Poem Source First Line: Good saint michael, if we must Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons PRAYER IN AUTUMN, by KIM HYUN-SUNG Poem Source First Line: Let me pray alone in autumn Last Line: After crossing the swelling ocean %and the valleys of lilies Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons PRAYER TO THE SPIRIT OF AUTUMN, by AMEY SMYTH Poem Text First Line: Unearthly radiance of the autumn hills Last Line: To keep this vision that I thought was lost! Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall PREMATURE FLOWER, by WALTER JOHN COATES Poem Text First Line: See that goldenrod! Isn't it handsome? Last Line: "when corn is in the crib and potatoes in the cellar!" Subject(s): Flowers; Goldenrod; Seasons 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 PRESERVES, by ANITA GRAY CHANDLER Poem Text First Line: This summer I shall try preserving Last Line: Into spring. Subject(s): Fruit; Memory; Seasons; Summer; Time PRIVATE FALL, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mots of haydust rise and fall Last Line: And we tell no one Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons PROTHALAMION FOR AN AUTUMN WEDDING, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source First Line: How pure the hearts of lovers as they walk Last Line: And a still center Variant Title(s): Prothalamio Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons PROVIDENCE IN THE FALL OF A NUTHATCH, by PHILLIP STERLING Poem Source First Line: By midday the patio Last Line: And the beasts of field %adore me Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons PURPLE AUTUMN, by GEORGY IVANOVICH CHULKOV Poem Text First Line: Purple autumn unloosened her tresses and flung them Last Line: Weaving a wreath of thorns. Variant Title(s): Autumnal Love Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Hearts; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The QUAIL IN AUTUMN, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn has turned the dark trees toward the hill Subject(s): Autumn; Poetry & Poets; Quails; Seasons; Fall QUAIL IN AUTUMN, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn has turned the dark trees toward the hill Last Line: A voice, a step, a swift sun-thrust of feather %and earth and air come properly together Subject(s): Autumn; Poetry And Poets; Quails; Seasons QUATRAINS: UNHAPPINESS, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High on the hills the miser, autumn, sits Last Line: In every wind that sweeps across the wold. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall QUESTIONS FOR SEPTEMBER, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: Blue! The sky! Last Line: And when winter comes %and you need %this gold this %blue %and all this copper, %reach in! Subject(s): Seasons RACCOON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come, child, and see our pet raccoon Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons RADIAL WHEELS OF THE SEASON SPIKED WITH KNIVES, by CHARLES TOMLINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That autumn has now invaded with this crop Subject(s): Autumn; Riddles; Seasons; Thistles RAIN, by EDWARD A. DOUGHERTY Poem Source First Line: Autumn here sounds the same Last Line: Only their dark regulation %will be left. Only that Subject(s): Autumn; Rain; Seasons RAIN, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: The april rain falls quietly, / with soft caress for bush and tree Last Line: December rain, december rain. Subject(s): Rain; Seasons; Spring; Water; Weather RAKING THE LEAVES, by JOHN CASSELS Poem Source First Line: Here it is, autumn again Last Line: Your little immaculate piles %into blivion Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons REALITY OF AUTUMN, by DUANE NIATUM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In my season as red as the red-breasted Last Line: To mold the dark to the dark Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons REAPERS, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Black reapers with the sound of steel on stones Subject(s): Harvest; Mowing & Mowers; Rats; Seasons; Lawn Mowers REAPERS, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Black reapers with the sound of steel on stones Last Line: His belly close to ground. I see the blade, %blood-stained, continue cutting weeds and shade Subject(s): Harvest; Mowing And Mowers; Rats; Seasons RED HEADED WOMEN OF AUTUMN, by KATE BRAVERMAN Poem Source First Line: Now the henna, the burgundies and clarets Last Line: If this is all I learned in fifty years %it was enough Variant Title(s): Acts Of Autumn # Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons REFLECTION IN AUTUMN, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now autumn's come, adieu the pleasing greens Last Line: Die with the leaves - nor taste that wintry strife %when sorrows urge - and fear impedes the fall Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons REMEMBERED SONGS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked an autumn lane, and ne'er a tune Last Line: Soft songs on hearts that loved us, long before? Subject(s): Autumn; June; Seasons; Silence; Singing & Singers; Fall; Songs REMINISCENCE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though I am native to this frozen zone Last Line: And, with the urn, she bore my heart away! Subject(s): Memory; Seasons; Love 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 RESURRECTION, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: When songsters were carolling matins betimes Last Line: Of the spring. Subject(s): Miracles; Nature; Seasons; Spring; Winter RETREAT, by DAVID JAMES SMITH Poem Source First Line: Here my breath %calms; the mind spreads Last Line: Sweeps in, chilling, %theatrical and dark Subject(s): Life; Seasons 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 REVIEW, by TONY TOWLE Poem Source First Line: The magic month of june, when I was born Last Line: Comes in the daytime, while we are walking Subject(s): Critics And Criticism; Seasons; Weather 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 RHYTHM, by EMMA BRADFIELD Poem Text First Line: Against the winter's cold, the grass will bide Last Line: And then returns. Subject(s): Nature; Seasons RICE-PLANTING SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When autumn comes Last Line: Must think the hills on fire Subject(s): Autumn; Rice; Seasons RICH DAYS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome to you rich autumn days Last Line: Into the loneliest lanes we know. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall RITES, by NEAL BOWERS Poem Source First Line: Bound to a backyard maple Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Trees ROADS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet'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 ROBIN IN HAWTHORN, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The robin flaunts his tawny bosom Last Line: On the bones of winter. Subject(s): Robins; Seasons RONDEAU OF SOLDIERHOOD, by EUSTACHE DESCHAMPS Poem Text First Line: Summer's the time for soldierhood Last Line: And sunbeams make old winter fly. Subject(s): Seasons; Soldiers ROSE HIP, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Cool dewy morning Last Line: Gay as a gipsy %all autumn long, %here on the hedge-top %this is my song Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons ROUNDEL, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring, again I'm due to Last Line: Spring. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Seasons; Spring 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 SAD DOMAIN, by STUART MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn months are my domain Last Line: Of not being able to be king Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons SALUTATION, LATE AUTUMN, 1991, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: It is late afternoon, the beginning Last Line: What I love most, I have given away Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Solitude SATURDAY IN THE PARK, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: Keep this picture - the one Last Line: I can't recall who took this %picture Subject(s): Seasons 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 SCILLA, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Scilla, scilla, tell me true Last Line: When you see it, think of me! Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons SEASON CHANGE, by BERNICE W. THORSON Poem Text First Line: The garden now in slumber lies Last Line: A chill of winter hovers near. Subject(s): Seasons SEASONS, by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet in summer, cups of snow Last Line: While they talk of love together. Alternate Author Name(s): Asklepiades Of Samos Subject(s): Love; Seasons SEASONS, by GERVE BARONTI Poem Text First Line: How lovely these trees are Last Line: Lest their beauty be too dazzling. Subject(s): Seasons SEASONS, by ROLFE HUMPHRIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They all are riders: spring on a two-year-old Last Line: Across the snow - in at the fox's breath Subject(s): Seasons SEASONS, by YAHYA KEMAL Poem Source First Line: Autumn's strings begin to resound, then Last Line: Stride the sky victorious with his earth-bound music Subject(s): Muslims; Seasons SEASONS, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The colds winds rave on the icy river Last Line: A bent body wearily plods alone. Subject(s): Seasons SEASONS (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In spring time when the leaves are young Last Line: And starved the snow he shines upon. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Seasons; Summer SEASONS (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crocuses and snow drops wither Last Line: Till spring and sunlight dawn again. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Seasons SEASONS (3), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the cheerful budding-time Last Line: And all hope of life seems lost. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Life; Nature; Seasons; World SEASONS AMONG THE TRIBES (18), by ROBERT LIETZ Poem Source First Line: Let the river grind its persistent bluish stone Last Line: Were but a smooth %drugged birth Subject(s): Primitive Man; Seasons SEASONS AND TIMES, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Awhile in the dead of the winter Last Line: When footsteps are few on the ground? Subject(s): Seasons; Time SEASONS AT ODDS WITH THEMSELVES, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's fall, just take a good look at the bushes Last Line: Like the centuries lugged into museums? Subject(s): History; Seasons SEASONS SHIFT, by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ever onward seasons shift Last Line: No reaching yao or yellow emperor, %distressing solitude lies in me Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Seasons; Spring; Transience SEASONS: AUTUMN, by JOHANN CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The myths of separation from the earth Last Line: As irreproachable as it is bright Alternate Author Name(s): Holderlin, J. C. F.; Holderlin, Friedrich Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons SEED-TIME, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet'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 SEEKING REST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother said: the child is changed Last Line: And think and weep alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Pain; Rest; Seasons; Suffering; Misery 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 JULIA JOHNSON DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Here is the iron weed Last Line: Only too soon. Subject(s): Seasons; September 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 / INNOKENTY ANNENSKY, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The gardens are a dull gold Last Line: Are excited by the cunty smells of autumn Subject(s): Annensky, Innokenty (1856-1909); Autumn; Seasons SEPTEMBER LAMENT, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves turn brown and fall, turn brown and fall Last Line: And that is all Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons SEPTEMBER, 1819 (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sylvan slopes with corn-clad fields Last Line: These choristers confide. Variant Title(s): Autumn Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall SEPTEMBER, 1868, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An april burst of beauty Last Line: The glory of the year. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall SETTING SUN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Dear john, the sun is setting now Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons SEVEN, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Don't shove. The one who is cute enough Last Line: Cherries will redden. %summer will come Subject(s): Patience; Seasons SHE DREAMS OF AUTUMN, by EDWARD HEYMAN PFEIFFER Poem Text First Line: I dreamed that the children were gathering leaves Last Line: Down. . . . Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall SHINING WEB, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A hungry spider made a web Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons SHRODON FEAR: THE REST O'T, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet'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 SIGHTINGS, by LUISA IGLORIA Poem Source First Line: In our language %there is no word Last Line: Flickers and %is gone Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons SINGING PINES, by GRACE CAROLINE SISON Poem Text First Line: The autumn winds are calling me to leave my cares today Last Line: A harmony of minor mode, a melody divine? Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Wind; Fall SINGING WITH SPRING, by JEAN WHITE Poem Text First Line: Today I matched my heart with spring Last Line: "let us match our hearts together!" Subject(s): Flowers; Happiness; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Spring; Joy; Delight SIX QUATRAINS, by EMMA PEIRCE Poem Text First Line: Spring is the opal stair Last Line: Are all well alight to welcome the morn. Subject(s): Seasons SKINNED YELLOW FALL, by KATE BRAVERMAN Poem Source First Line: Come at me fall Last Line: Dark things with a taste %for absinthe and amber Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons SLED RUN, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: Let's go!' Last Line: On the path %flies up to meet %the rush %of our white breath! Subject(s): Seasons SLIGHTEST OF WINDS, by LUCIO MARIANI Poem Source First Line: Women die in autumn, in a hush Last Line: Of grief. The slightest of winds is enough Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Seasons; Wind; Women SLIPPING AWAY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slipping away -- slipping away! Last Line: We are slipping away to the shores of peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Happiness; Peace; Seasons; World; Belief; Creed; Joy; Delight SLOE, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: When blackthorn blossoms leap to sight Last Line: Too sharp these plums, %until the touch %of winter comes! Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons SLOW SPRING, by ARDELL CARDON Poem Text First Line: Let march now blush with blossom brief and white Last Line: And hear the crashing thunder of desire. Subject(s): Seasons; Spring; Sun SMALL DEFEATS: WALKING THROUGH SEASONS, by GORDON WEAVER Poem Source First Line: Lady, take a thoughtful, loving walk with me Last Line: Lady, I ask you, what else earns its certain end so well as a too-short %loving walk? Subject(s): Aging; Nature; Seasons; Walking; Women SMELLS, by KATHRYN WORTH Poem Source First Line: Through all the frozen winter Last Line: Of grass the whole world over Subject(s): Seasons; Smells SNAKE IN AUTUMN, by JEFFERY BEAM Poem Source First Line: I could have stood there Last Line: Coiling and un- %coiling Subject(s): Animals; Autumn; Seasons; Snakes SNOW CHANGE, by MAY LEWIS Poem Text First Line: I saw a white house, in the snow Last Line: The sweep of the hill. Alternate Author Name(s): Goldstone, Mrs. Lafayette Anthony Subject(s): Seasons; Snow; White (color); Winter SNOW FALL, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On green leaves %eye is twitching quite dreadfully Last Line: And pity I have in my heart Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Loss; Seasons SNOW PRINT ONE: MYSTERY, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: What angel fell here Last Line: Watching us wonder %which angel fell on his back %in the garden! Subject(s): Seasons SNOW PRINT TWO: HIEROGLYPHICS, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: In the alley Last Line: These are messages %from the small dark birds %to me Subject(s): Seasons SNOW STARS, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: Once there was a girl Last Line: Once there was a girl %whose breath %filled a winter day %with stars Subject(s): Seasons SNOWDROP, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Deep sleeps the winter, cold, wet, and grey Last Line: The fair maids of february stand in the snow! Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons SO COMES THE SUMMER'S CLOSE, by JEAN LANGILLE RUTHERFORD Poem Text First Line: This is a sullen day / a day of mist and Last Line: That promise snow. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; September; Fall SO IT'S TODAY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Text Poet'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 SOLSTICE, by RHINA POLONIA ESPAILLAT Poem Source First Line: Now in our maple a dove is whooing Last Line: And the leaves are turning Subject(s): Nature; Seasons 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 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 (8), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stream moaneth as it floweth Last Line: Lulling us from many woes. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Brooks; Earth; Rain; Seasons; Streams; Creeks; World SONG - FOR NOVEMBER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While skies glint bright with Last Line: With all her blossoms blooming. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Apples; Birds; Fruit; November; Seasons SONG AT THE BEGINNING OF AUTUMN, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS Poem Source First Line: Now watch this autumn that arrives Last Line: When I said autumn, autumn broke Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons SONG IN THE KEY OF AUTUMN, by SCUDDER MIDDLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are walking with the month Last Line: Or laughter from a sunny face. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall SONG OF LATE SEPTEMBER, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In this irised net I keep Last Line: And the moon's my golden ring. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall SONG OF THE ALMOND BLOSSOM FAIRY, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Joy! The winter's nearly gone! Last Line: But the almond is the first! Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons SONG OF THE AUTUMN WIND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Autumn winds rise, white clouds fly Last Line: How long does youth's prime last? - no hope against old age Subject(s): Aging; Autumn; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts; Seasons; Transience SONG OF THE CHERRY TREE FAIRY, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Cherries, a treat for the blackbirds Last Line: Is the fortunate cherry-tree one! Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons SONG OF THE LILAC FAIRY, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: White may is flowering Last Line: Or sweeter to smell Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons SONG OF THE PEAR BLOSSOM FAIRY, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Sing, sing, sing, you blackbirds! Last Line: Then sit, sit, sit, little hen! Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons SONG OF THE SPRINGTIDE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O season supposed of all free flowers Last Line: Are fiddlededee! Subject(s): Flowers;seasons;singing & Singers;spring SONG OF THE WILD CHERRY BLOSSOM FAIRY, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: In april when the woodland ways Last Line: You lovely, lovely thing to see! Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons SONG OF THE WILLOW FAIRY, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: By the peaceful stream or the shady pool Last Line: And dip my toes in the stream below Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons 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, by MARTHA SPARROW METTENET Poem Text First Line: With winged heels spring treads the airy moon Last Line: Nor mar a day dressed out in green and gold! Subject(s): Seasons SONNET: 2, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Parted by time and space for many a year Last Line: And fluted in those old virginia groves. Subject(s): Absence; Seasons; Youth; Separation; Isolation SONNET: 7. ON SUMMER, by THOMAS WARTON THE YOUNGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While summer suns o'er the gay prospect play'd Last Line: I wished her green attire, and wonted bloom! Subject(s): Seasons 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 SONNET: THE HUMAN SEASONS, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four seasons fill the measure of the year Last Line: Or else he would forego his mortal nature. Variant Title(s): The Seasons Of Man Subject(s): Life Change Events; Seasons SONNETS FOR FIVE SEASONS: COMPLAINT, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear god,' they write, 'that was a selfish winter Subject(s): Seasons; Weather; God 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 OF THE MONTHS: CONCLUSION, by GIACOMO DI MICHELE Poem Source First Line: And now take thought, my sonnet, who is he Alternate Author Name(s): Folgore Da San Gimignano; Di Michele, Giacomo Subject(s): Italian Renaissance; Seasons SONNETS OF THE MONTHS: DEDICATION, by GIACOMO DI MICHELE Poem Source First Line: Unto the blithe and lordly fellowship Alternate Author Name(s): Folgore Da San Gimignano; Di Michele, Giacomo Subject(s): Italian Renaissance; Seasons SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 19. THE MANY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Greene, garlanded with february's few flowers Last Line: Live likewise ye: time takes not you for slaves. Subject(s): Seasons; Time 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 SPIRIT OF THE SUNSET, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When the aster wakes in the morning Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons SPRING, by ALFRED M. HANSEN Poem Text First Line: Once again the birds are moving, from the Last Line: It's a strength-giving season with its balmy atmosphere. Subject(s): Seasons SPRING, by KATHERINE NEAL LOVE Poem Text First Line: Whether it was a profile / of a jagged mountain Last Line: Of a by-gone summer. Subject(s): Flowers; Seasons; Spring SPRING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young leaves grow green on the banyan twigs Last Line: An idyl of love and spring. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Poppies; Seasons; Spring SPRING, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! The hours are softly calling Last Line: Bidding thee arise. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Earth; Seasons; Spring; World SPRING, by THELMA HILL WARD Poem Text First Line: When all dark winter's furious winds have blown Last Line: Dawns april in a purple lilac tree Subject(s): Seasons; Spring 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 CLEANING, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: Notice how Last Line: Shadows on my walls thumbprints %the aproned wing %rubs out Subject(s): Seasons SPRING COMES!, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little birds, they do not heed nor care Last Line: The birds have heard it—and the birds are wise. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Birds; Seasons; Spring SPRING FANTASIES: 1. MAY DAY IN MARCH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: March with her madcap winds, march with her weather Last Line: Twas ever anything on earth but may! Subject(s): Faith; Fantasy; March (month); May (month); Seasons; Soul; Spring; Belief; Creed 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 SPRING HYMN, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How pleasant is the opening year! Last Line: Must reap the harvest time hath sown. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Flowers; Harvest; Seasons; Spring SPRING ON BROADWAY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Make way for spring- / spring that's a stranger in the city Last Line: Make way! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Flowers; Seasons; Spring SPRING SONG, by JEAN ANTOINE DE BAIF Poem Text First Line: Idle winter's colde Last Line: With the season's whim? Subject(s): Seasons; Spring SPRING SONG, by GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD COLE Poem Text First Line: Autumn songs in the spring? Last Line: Off with old's on with new. Alternate Author Name(s): Cole, G. D. H. Subject(s): Oxford University; Seasons SPRING SPARKLE AND THE COCK-BIRD SHRIEK, by JAMES P. SCOFIELD Poem Source First Line: Yesterday the winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind Last Line: May this movement spare me a final humiliation Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds; Seasons; Singing And Singers; Time; Winter SPRING WILL COME, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The sun called down to the northwind 'back!' Last Line: And spring has come! Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Seasons; Spring SQUIRREL'S ARITHMETIC, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: High on the branch of a walnut-tree Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons ST. LUKE'S SUMMER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is st. Luke, his summer: you shall see Last Line: A little while before the nipping frost. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Summer STANZAS, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All things wax old. What voice shall chase Last Line: To him this last libation I will pour. Subject(s): Seasons STANZAS WRITTEN WRITTEN ON THE FIRST OF DECEMBER, 1793, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though now no more the musing ear Last Line: And bid the flowret bloom. Subject(s): Love; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Seasons; Winter STORM, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: There has never been a wind Last Line: Take off your shoes! Hang on to my %hand! Like noah's children %we wait %for a dove %and a rainbow Subject(s): Seasons SUMMER, by LARS LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: The lupine are blooming Last Line: With its muzzle it caresss our cheeks Subject(s): Freedom; Seasons; Summer SUMMER COMES, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Tiny spiders balloon off my finger Last Line: To face the flame Subject(s): Seasons; Summer SUMMER DAY, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Far before me stretched a woodland Last Line: Of their summer melody. Subject(s): Seasons; Summer SUMMER FADES, by AMY LYNN SIPPLE Poem Source First Line: Too tired to sleep Last Line: Across the heart and the %soul of the land Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Summer SUMMER IS GONE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My tidings for you: the stag bells Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons SUMMER SCHOOL, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION Poem Source First Line: To whom should summer go to school? Last Line: Guess summer just stays dumb again Subject(s): Schools; Seasons; Summer SUMMER WOODS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O I am tired of painted roofs and soft and silken floors Last Line: Like krishna and like radhika, encompassed with delight. Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Seasons; Summer; Joy; Delight SUMMER'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT: AUTUMN, by THOMAS NASHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn hath all the summer's fruitful treasure Last Line: From winter, plague, and pestilence, good lord, deliver us! Alternate Author Name(s): Nash, Thomas+(1) Variant Title(s): Dirge Of The Satyrs And Wood Nymphs Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall SUNDAY BAY LOOKOUT CHECK UP, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A few party %boats looking for labor Last Line: False pacific jungle makes no sound Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Autumn; Bicycles; Grief; Loss; Seasons SUNRISE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If the wind and the sunlight of april and Last Line: Forever. Subject(s): Dawn; Seasons; Spring; Sunrise SUNSHINE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I wish the beautiful sun would shine Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons SWEETHEARTS OF THE YEAR, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our sweetheart, spring, came softly Last Line: For baby christmas trees. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Seasons SWING, by SARAT MUKHOPADHYAYA Poem Source First Line: The white cloud sways like laundry drying Last Line: Their dusty feet once touch the ground %then aim at the sky Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Swings TAKE HEART!, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day the stormy wind has blown Last Line: To greet thee in immortal year! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Storms; Fall TALL AMBROSIA, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet'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 TANKA: 1, by SADAKICHI HARTMANN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter? Spring? Who knows! Last Line: Yet their fragrance augurs spring. Subject(s): Flowers; Seasons TELL ME, SONG-BIRD, by K. DEVRISH Poem Text First Line: Gay song-bird, on your journey back to spring Last Line: My heart without your message throbs and grieves. Subject(s): Birds; Seasons THE APPEASEMENT OF DEMETER, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Demeter devastated our good land Last Line: For body, thou! To both art wine and bread! Subject(s): Demeter; Mythology; Seasons; Ceres 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 AUTHORS CONFESSION, SELECTION, by ELIZABETH MAJOR Poem Text First Line: Old age -- the eternal son of god for sin did die Last Line: O let not any intice thee time to waste. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Love; Seasons; Sin; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion 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 BALLAD OF SMILES AND TEARS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the gleeful spring on Last Line: Then hearts that are heavy may melt in tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Seasons; Smiles; Soul; Tears 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 BLEAK OF THE YEAR, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a time of subtle browns, and grays Last Line: A mystery, the selah of the soul. Subject(s): Dreams; Seasons; Sleep; Soul; Nightmares 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 CHANGING SEASON, by ALINE NEFF Poem Text First Line: Golden sunlight floods the earth Last Line: Interpreting god's moods. Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Seasons; Weather; World 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 CONQUEROR, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O spring, that flutter'st the slow winter by Last Line: So he, when throned, no greater lord doth know. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Seasons 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 COURIERS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The word of a snail on the plate of a leaf? Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Seasons 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 DANDELION, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand poets have sung the rose Last Line: The dandelion! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Seasons; Weeds; Wind 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 DEATH OF WINTER, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When april with her wild blue eye Last Line: On the dawning brows of maiden may. Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Spring 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 EARTH MOTHER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wise old mother lets man play a while Last Line: "welcome to love, and sleep, and holiday." Subject(s): Earth; Kisses; Love; Mothers; Seasons; Soul; World THE ENDURING, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If the autumn ended Last Line: Over the hill. Subject(s): Autumn; Hope; Life; Seasons; Fall; Optimism THE ETERNAL PLAY, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Third act of the eternal play! Last Line: Hath still for us a stranger show. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Theater & Theaters; Fall; Stage Life THE FALL, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet'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 LEAVES, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In warlike pomp, with banners flowing Last Line: Among the rustling memories of the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Change; Seasons 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 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 FOUR SEASONS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Springe is ycomen in Last Line: Brighte sparke in the dead yeare Subject(s): Seasons THE FOUR SEASONS, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When winter's past, then ev'ry field and hill Last Line: Returns to dust, a shadow, and a nothing lies. Subject(s): Seasons THE FOUR SEASONS OF THE YEAR, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another four I've left yet to bring on Last Line: Shall at your feet for pardon cry. Subject(s): Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Seasons; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE GARDEN YEAR, by SARA COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: January brings the snow Last Line: Blazing fire, and christmas treat. Variant Title(s): The Months Subject(s): Months; Seasons THE GOD OF THE SEASONS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O god of the seasons! We bring Last Line: To dwell in the light of thy face. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Seasons 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 GOLDEN ROD, by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring is the morning of the year Last Line: Will go and put the torches out! Subject(s): Goldenrod; Night; Seasons; Bedtime THE GOLDEN YEAR!, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When piped the love-warm throstle shrill Last Line: And the wintry winds shrilled eerie! Subject(s): Seasons THE HALF-WAY HOUSE, by NAN TERRELL REED Poem Text First Line: Just around the bend of winter Last Line: In the half-way house of spring. Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Spring 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 HOP GARDEN: BOOK 1: HOPS AND PROPS, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When phoebus looks through aries on the right Last Line: They've felt; 'tis then we fell sublimer props. Subject(s): Cold; Plants; Seasons; Winter; Youth; Planting; Planters 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 IMPERFECT PARADISE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Which season is the loveliest of all? Subject(s): Seasons; Gardens & Gardening; Squirrels; Nature THE JOYS OF THE ROAD, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the joys of the road are chiefly these Last Line: For him who travels without a load. Subject(s): Autumn; Roads; Seasons; Wandering & Wanderers; Youth; Fall; Paths; Trails; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE KING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet'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 LONG SEASON, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: Now when all slopes and fields not crushed by storm Last Line: The mortal increase. Subject(s): Botany And Botanists; Flowers; Nature; Seasons THE LONGEST DAY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On yonder hills soft twilight dwells Last Line: Ye summer souls, rejoice! Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Summer 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 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 MINISTRY OF NATURE; OR, THE TEMPLE SERVICE OF THE SEASONS, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Ordained of god to preach the truth to men Last Line: Thus nature worships god the whole year through. Subject(s): Indian Summer; Native Americans - History; Nature; Preaching & Preachers; Seasons 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 MONTHS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Contorted by wind Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Time THE MONTHS, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From your high dwellings in the realms of snow Last Line: Till keen december's snows close up the year again Subject(s): Seasons THE MONTHS: A PAGEANT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cold the day and cold the drifted snow Last Line: And begin dancing round to a stately measure as the curtain falls.] Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Seasons THE MUSIC MAKER: PART 2: 2, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blithe spring expanding into summer's cheer Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Seasons 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 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 ONES THAT DISAPPEARED ARE BACK, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: The other side is may Subject(s): Seasons THE PARTING AND THE COMING GUEST, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who watched the worn-out winter die? Last Line: I think the coming sped the parting guest. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Seasons; Spring; Winter 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 PLAINT HUMAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Season of snows, and season of Last Line: And much too much of the other. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brothers; Flowers; Grief; Seasons; Snow; Half-brothers; Sorrow; Sadness 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 POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 23, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The seasonal round never stops Last Line: Depart and don't return Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Seasons; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE POET, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O tell me, tell me Last Line: Is it sacrifice? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Seasons 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 REPEATED JOURNEY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again and again I make the intolerable journey Last Line: We were for a season Subject(s): Seasons; Travel; Journeys; Trips 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 OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: In springtime life from out the earth Last Line: And loving hearts surround. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Seasons; Spring THE SEASONS, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring's first flowerets, fair and white Last Line: He lingers through life's dull decay! Subject(s): Aging; Seasons; Time 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, by HATTIE HOME Poem Text First Line: I come from the distant, frozen zones Last Line: Please give us a song, our journey to cheer. Subject(s): Seasons THE SEASONS, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: W'en de leaves begin to fall Last Line: Mek it hard to tell which time o' year am bes'. Subject(s): Seasons; Time; Weather THE SEASONS, by DEREK MAHON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day-stars like daisies on a field of sky. Subject(s): Seasons THE SEASONS, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring is showery, flowery, bowery Last Line: Winter: slippy, drippy, nippy. Subject(s): Seasons THE SEASONS OF HER YEAR, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter is white on turf and tree Last Line: Alone - alone! Subject(s): Seasons THE SEASONS. IN IMITATION OF SPENSER, by MOSES MENDEZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The balmy cowslip gilds the smiling plain Last Line: Yet, ah! In vain I preach—mine heart is ill at ease Subject(s): Seasons THE SEASONS: A HYMN, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These, as they change, almighty father Last Line: Come, then, expressive silence, muse his praise. Variant Title(s): Hymn Of The Seasons;a Hymn On The Seasons Subject(s): Nature; Seasons 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 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 SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: CONCLUSION, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loe! I have made a calender for every yeare Last Line: Merce non mercede. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Seasons THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: DECEMBER, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gentle shepheard satte beside a springe Last Line: Tell rosalind her colin bids her adieu.' Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Aging; December; Seasons; Winter 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 SOUL'S SEASON, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god who seasons thus the year Last Line: And strews his honors on the summer's bier. Subject(s): Seasons; Soul THE SPELL, by EDNA FREDERIKSON Poem Text First Line: Set in strong inevitable flight Last Line: For a golden moment time is still. Subject(s): Seasons; Time THE SPRING RUNNING, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' skies still are cold and grey Last Line: I swoon asleep in the dusky wold. Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Seasons; Spring; Youth THE SUMMER SUN SHONE ROUND ME, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: The winter comes apace Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Seasons; Time THE SUN OF MY SONGS, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: The birds are all a-singing Last Line: "bursting into blossoming." Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Birds; Death; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Sun; Dead, The THE SWEET O' THE YEAR, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the frog, all lean and weak Last Line: Welcome in the sweet o' the year. Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Spring THE THREE WINDS, by LAURIE LEE Poet's Biography First Line: The hard blue wind of march Subject(s): Seasons; Wind THE TOUCH, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Age-old, age-silent, nature queen Last Line: Wavers along the boughs. Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Spring; Touch (sense) THE TOWN KARNTEEL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The town karnteel! - it's who'll Last Line: And racing, wid wheelborries! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Praise; Seasons; Towns THE TREE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Think of her when she shall be dead Last Line: Who lost a resting-place. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Seasons; Trees; Dead, The; Bereavement 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 UNCULTURED MAN, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He does not see nor understand Last Line: All things just commonplace. Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Nature; Seasons 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 VOYAGERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spring in festival array Last Line: The autumn drifts again. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Seasons 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 WEDDING OF THE SEASONS, by BESSIE SAUNDERS SPENCER Poem Text First Line: When autumn comes Last Line: Is summer thus to autumn wed. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall THE WINDOW, by HILDA RIDLEY Poem Text First Line: She opened wide the window, drew Last Line: Its beauty challenged and consoled. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Windows; Fall THE WINTER SHORE, by THOMAS WADE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mighty change it is, and ominous Last Line: Reigneth omnipotent. Subject(s): Seashore; Seasons; Water; Wind; Winter; Beach; Coast; Shore THE WINTER-SPRING, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: O how the worlds amazement now doth stare Last Line: Who of himself doth back to winter run. Subject(s): Seasons THE YEAR OF LOVE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There were four loves that one by one Last Line: The place wherein love grew. Subject(s): April; Love; Seasons THE YEAR [ROUND], by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The crocus, while the days are dark Last Line: And night is pierced with stars. Subject(s): Seasons 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 THESE ARE BUT WORDS; THE SONNET, by MUNA LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What other form were worthy of your praise Last Line: Love is the hardest where all things are hard. Alternate Author Name(s): Munoz Matin, Luis, Mrs.; Munoz Matin, Muna Lee Subject(s): Despair; Happiness; Love; Seasons; Joy; Delight THIEF, by IRENE F. PAWSEY Poem Source First Line: Autumn wind came stealing Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons THINGS LOST IN AUTUMN, by PARK SONG'YONG Poem Source Last Line: Nothing but dust Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons THIS AUTUMN NIGHT, by RUTH EVELYN REID Poem Text First Line: The year is turning, yet I...Yet I Last Line: Watch glory flame to ash with stifled breath! Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall THISTLEDOWN: 12. AUTUMN, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: She kindles fires in every tree and bush Last Line: Then autumn draws her gray hood close and dies. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall THOUGH BIRDS HAVE FLOWN, by BETTIE MARGOT CASSIE Poem Text First Line: Now that the trees are stripped of all their fire Last Line: Though birds have flown the trees still harbor nests. Subject(s): Autumn; Birds; Dreams; Seasons; Trees; Fall; Nightmares THOUGHTS ON THE SEASONS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flattered with promise of escape Last Line: Through heaven-born hope, her end! Subject(s): Seasons THREE SEASONS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cup for hope!' she said Last Line: And solitary dove. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Seasons THREE WINDS, by LAURIE LEE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hard blue wind of march Last Line: My thirst's delirium Subject(s): Seasons; Wind THRENODY, by JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The red leaves fall upon the lake Last Line: Across the far and lonely place %that airplanes know Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons TIME OF CLEARER TWITTERINGS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet'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 APOLLO, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Luminous master of song and sunbeams Last Line: Harlots and publicans enter in. Subject(s): Apollo; Flowers; Mythology - Classical; Roses; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Soul 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, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I do not scorn your gay approach Last Line: Your gloomy smile or your return Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons TO AUTUMN, by MARGARET RABB Poem Source First Line: Cayenne and tomatoes red clear through as though the sun split Last Line: While we gather, lift, whistle together, a light wind aloft in the sinking skies Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons TO AUTUMN, NEAR HER DEPARTURE, by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou maid of gentle light!Thy straw-wove vest Last Line: And from thy glance will catch th' inspired strain. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall TO GEORGE H. BOKER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To you the homage of this book I bring Last Line: A heart, dear friend, that never falsely beat. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Boker, George Henry (1823-1890); Flowers; Friendship; Hearts; Love; Seasons TO M. W., by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kind, gentle friend, brought strangely low Last Line: As dances at her heart to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Life; Night; Seasons; Bedtime TO ROBIN REDBREAST, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Merrily 'mid the faded leaves Last Line: The song and the ensign of dear fireside. Subject(s): Birds; Robins; Seasons; Singing & Singers TOKENS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green mwold on zummer bars do show Last Line: To eyezight's woone, but two to thought. Subject(s): Grass; Seasons; Storms; Summer; Winter 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 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 TOWARD AN ORGANIC PHILOSOPHY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The glow of my campfire is dark red and flameless Last Line: And links the roll of a planet alike with the interests %of marmots and men' Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Spring TRANSITION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis said, in death, upon the face Last Line: With dreams of may. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Variant Title(s): Indian Summer (1) Subject(s): Hope; Indian Summer; Seasons; Optimism TRAVELLER'S JOY, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Traveller, traveller, tramping by Last Line: Somewhere a lass looks out for a boy: %luck be with you, and traveller's joy! Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons TREAD THE DARK: 3. THE SEASONS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The seasons doubt themselves and give way Last Line: And the sun is a flame of doubt %warming to our bodies Subject(s): Seasons TREE AS A SHIP, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: The tree in a sea of air Last Line: And your vast age and bulk and excitement %wait Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons TREES BE COMPANY, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When zummer's burnen het's a-shed Last Line: The trees would still be company. Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Pleasure; Seasons; Solitude; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Loneliness TREES IN AUTUMN, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: Golden starred, lapped in silver brocade Last Line: To each breeze that stirs. Subject(s): Autumn; Eucalyptus Trees; Leaves; Plane Trees; Seasons; Willow Trees; Fall; Sycamores TREES IN AUTUMN, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: --when the summer's gone out of them Last Line: Defenseless. Now %we see through them Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Nature; Seasons; Weather TRIFLES, by J. COLESWORTHY Poem Source First Line: A raindrop is a little thing Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons TROPICAL AUTUMN, by STUART JOHN DYBEK Poem Source First Line: The shell of a cicada %clinging to the screen Last Line: It will take the cycle of a year %to tell when summer ends Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons TULIP, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Our stalks are very straight and tall Last Line: Now in your gardens we abide- %and aren't you glad we came? Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons TWAS LATER WHEN THE SUMMER WENT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Keeps esoteric time Subject(s): Crickets; Time; Seasons TWENTY POEMS OF LOVE AND ONE POEM OF DESPAIR: 6, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I remember you as you were that final autumn Last Line: Dry leaves of autumn were whirling in you soul Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Seasons TWICE IN THE YEAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Twice in the sweep of the swinging year Subject(s): Seasons TWO AUTUMN DAWNS: 1, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dawn creeps laggard now into the wood Last Line: Each morning, as she comes into the wood. Subject(s): Autumn; Dawn; Seasons; Fall; Sunrise TWO AUTUMN DAWNS: 2, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The city is astir ere dawn has come Last Line: The city is astir, ere dawn has come. Subject(s): Autumn; Dawn; London; Seasons; Fall; Sunrise TWO SONGS OF AUTUMN, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind has whipped the willows bare Last Line: To your deep unrest. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Seasons; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness TWO WAYS TO LOOK AT KITES, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: Sky-flowers! Last Line: My arms out straight %but I reel him in %still fighting zigzagging %against the currents %of wind Subject(s): Seasons TWO WISE OWLS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We are two dusky owls, and we live in a tree Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons TZU-YEH SONG, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ch'ang-an - one slip of moon Last Line: When will they put down the barbarians %and my good man come home from his far campaign? Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons UNDER WILLOWS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under willows among the graves Last Line: She shall die at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Seasons; Willow Trees UNDERNEATH (9), by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring / up, up you go, you must be introduced Subject(s): Change; Seasons UNDERNEATH (9), by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spring %up, up you go, you must be introduced Last Line: Organized around a radiant absence. %in his dance the people do not move Subject(s): Change; Seasons UNDINE: UNDINE'S SONG, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Gay are we and without care Last Line: Weave their spell in the rose-lit dusk. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Calm; Seasons; Spring; Weather; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility 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 UNTITLED, by PAUL L. ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Must there always be remorse %with october Last Line: Even remorse dissolves into a door Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Wisconsin VANISHED!, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: I saw her first as when one sees Last Line: The due of lordly death. Subject(s): Death; Seasons; Soul; Time; Dead, The 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 VIOLIN SONGS: HOPE DEFERRED, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is come again. The sun is bright Last Line: And summer winds were out! Subject(s): Death; Despair; Future Life; God; Hope; Seasons; Summer; Winter; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Optimism VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 3: SATIRE: 5, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fie on all courtesie, and vnrulie windes Last Line: But waxen crowns well gree with borowed haires. Variant Title(s): The Coxcomb Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Wind; Fall VOGUE, by CORA FREAR HAWKINS Poem Text First Line: Summer dons a flowered hat, with dress in rosy tints Last Line: While spring, hair blowing in the wind, wears flower- sprigged chintz. Subject(s): Autumn; Clothing & Dress; Seasons; Summer; Fall W 40, by SIMON PERCHIK Poem Source First Line: Even in the womb these leaves Last Line: Held out for rain and burial Subject(s): Autumn; Birth; Death; Seasons WAKE-UP CALL, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: This morning Last Line: Wake up, bears! %all the news %is printed on the stones %in green velevet! Subject(s): Seasons WALKING PAST THE SCHOOL AT NIGHT, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: It lies Last Line: A hot wind blows - breath of %the mammoth! %run! Subject(s): Seasons WANDERING OF THE BIRDS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Autumn has come, so bare and gray Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons WATER TABLE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet'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 WE SHOULD NOT MIND SO SMALL A FLOWER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And dandelions gold Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Melancholy WEATHERS, by CAROLYN KOO Poem Source First Line: By june, the risk of frost is past, but in may Last Line: And blackens the heart of a blossom Subject(s): Seasons; Weather WELCOME TO OCTOBER, 1867, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hail and bless thy presence, month most dear Last Line: Canst with soft magic charm life's weary hours. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; October; Seasons; Fall WHAT I CAN DO FOR THIS AUTUMN, by HONG YUNSUK Poem Source Last Line: And cordially meet the winter's visit Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons WHAT THE SEASON SPARES, by MYRNA J. STONE Poem Source First Line: Singly and in turn, or together Last Line: Stone and snow and memory, all %the season has spared Subject(s): Seasons WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apple blossom and Last Line: And the late wet snow of spring Subject(s): Seasons; Snow; Spring; Squirrels WHAT'S IN A NAME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why has spring one syllable less Last Line: Long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Names; Seasons WHEN AUTUMN COMES, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When autumn comes, across the years Last Line: When autumn comes. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall WHEN AUTUMN IS A-COMIN' IN, by IRENE ZIMMERMAN Poem Source Last Line: Give long-range forecasts of the weather %through thicknesses of fur or feather Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Seasons WHEN SLOW OCTOBER CHANGES COLOR, by UMBERTO PIERSANTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's like the sweet must that wasps Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUNKIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text 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 WHITE BRYONY, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Have you seen at autumn-time Last Line: Is there any handiwork %prettier than mine? Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons WHITE CLOVER, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: I'm little white clover, kind and clean Last Line: My honey is good, and meant for you ! Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons WILD PEACHES, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the world turns completely upside down Last Line: And sleepy winter, like the sleep of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Variant Title(s): "when The World Turns Completely Upside Down""; Subject(s): Fruit; Nature; Peaches; Seasons WILD RABBITS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Among the sand-hills Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons WILD ROSE, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: I am the queen whom everybody knows Last Line: One word which is my secret and my song, %'tis 'england, england, england' all day long Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons WIND, by LINDA LEE HARPER Poem Source First Line: Summer, humid as an old aunt's apartment when she boils the fat out of Last Line: Horizon, pink and black as a mottled pig rooting for corn Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Wind WIND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What is the wind, mamma? Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons WIND AND WATER, by MIAO YIN Poem Source First Line: A steady wind scours the autumn moon Last Line: Why, then, does karma yet coil and bind? Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Wind; Zen Buddhism WIND HOWLING THROUGH THE PINES, by MINAMOTO TOSHIYORI Poem Source Last Line: In a hamlet by the tama river Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons WIND STORIES, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: Tell me again Last Line: Out of gardens %and fill the windows %of old buildings %withclouds Subject(s): Seasons WINDOW CLOSED, by ERNEST WICHNER Poem Source First Line: The window closed. With august over Last Line: O, elsewhere - to confirm again Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons WINDOW, AUTUMN, by WILLIAM REICHARD Poem Source First Line: Outside, she rakes maple leaves into loose piles, stakes burlap and wire Last Line: Into the deep ditch, snaps down brown milkweed Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons WINDS, by WILHELMINA STAVERS LEE Poem Text First Line: Spring winds / are singing strings Last Line: Her throat. Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Wind WINTER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pointed icicles hung on my porch in the moonlight / glittering bright Last Line: In my unfaith! Subject(s): Cold; Ice; Seasons; Silence; Snow; Winter WINTER, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: A glittering mantle of spotless white Last Line: And the warm, sweet spring-tide into the heart. Subject(s): Seasons; Snow; Winter WINTER, by ALEKSEI KRUCHENYKH Poem Source First Line: Fzorz... %zunn... %itseeen... %winter! Last Line: All the dogs %croaked! Subject(s): Cold; Seasons; Snow; Winter WINTER, by E. H. SMITH Poem Text First Line: The naked trees rattle their gaunt limbs Last Line: After death will spring come again? Subject(s): Cold; Frost; Seasons; Winter WINTER ACONITE, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Deep in the earth Last Line: Spring calls, and comes; 'tis no mistake Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons WINTER JASMINE, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: All through the summer my leaves were Last Line: And we say: 'good cheer! %we're here! We're here!' Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons WINTER OVERTURE, by LUCY KENT Poem Source First Line: We walk into the wide embrace Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons WINTER ROADS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the spring thaw Last Line: Looking for winter Subject(s): Autumn; Roads; Seasons; Spring; Winter; Fall; Paths; Trails WINTER SUN, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is noon. A park Last Line: Licking the almost deaf %and greenish stone Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Autumn; Old Age; Seasons; Trees WINTER'S APPRENTICE, by JESSICA HORNIK Poem Source First Line: The leaves seem to be hanging on okay, still green Last Line: Like subtleties slipping by not quite unnoticed Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Trees; Winter WINTER'S SNOW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Soft clinging robe of purest white Last Line: Beneath the sun of day. Subject(s): Seasons; Silence; Snow; White (color); Winter WINTER, 1825, by SAMUEL WOODWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor is stern winter's icy sceptre swayed Last Line: Till new-year's happy morning crown'd the whole. Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year; New York City - 19th Century; Seasons; Winter; Nativity, The 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 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 WOOLLY BEAR CATEERPILLAR, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: Darkness comes early Last Line: The woolly bear ripples %his tickling fur %from one cold hand to the other Subject(s): Seasons WRITTEN IN AUTUMN, by MARY TIGHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O autumn! How I love thy pensive air Last Line: Throbs with vain pangs, here will I love to rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Blachford, Mary Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall WRITTEN IN EARLY AUTUMN AT THE POOL OF SPRINKLING WATER, by CHAO-TI OF HAN Poem Text First Line: In autumn, when the landscape is clear Last Line: And amy lowell Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall WUTONG, by ZHENG YUNDUAN Poem Source First Line: To the wutong leaves autumn first arrives Last Line: I sit long in the night, listening to autumn's sound Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons X, by TICO CROES Poem Source First Line: The sound of dry leaves Last Line: Buoyed by a grand smiling moon Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Night; Seasons YARROW, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Among the harebells and the grass Last Line: Would miss my clusters white and pink, %if I should disappear Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons YET A LITTLE WHILE (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These days are long before I die Last Line: And air vibrates with coming chimes. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Peace; Seasons; Dead, The YOLKI FLOWERS AT TEL HAZIKA, by ELISHA PORAT Poem Source First Line: That autumn, when their time came Last Line: Soured from forgotten blood? Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Seasons ZHEGU TIAN: MOVED, by JI YINGHUAI Poem Source First Line: Red and fragrant blossoms have dropped off Last Line: Why is the east wind so eager to blow? Subject(s): Seasons |
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