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“Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,-- So rolls the changing year, and so we change; Motion so swift, we know not that we move.”

Knows Years Moving Fall Summer Spring Winter Autumn

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.”

Source: A Boy's Will

“Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.”

Philosophy Fall Sand Autumn Creeds Withered Withered Leaves

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.”

Light Night Fall Sun Sky Approach Lows Autumn Shade Twilight Dew Deck Blushing Fall Autumn Departing

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete : with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death : Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete : with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death : Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton

“Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of the Haze..., Grant me, Oh Lord, a sunny mind- Thy windy will to bear!”

Source: Questa è la mia lettera al mondo: poesie

“When everything that ticked has stopped, and space stares, all around, or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, repeal the beating ground.”

Firsts Fall Space Staring Autumn Frost Fall Season October And Fall

Book:Dickinson

Source: Dickinson

“Once more the liberal year laughs out O'er richer stores than gems or gold: Once more with harvest song and shout Is nature's boldest triumph told.”

Years Song Fall Laughing Gold Stores Triumph Autumn Harvest Gems November Poems Summer To Fall Fall And Winter

Author:John Greenleaf Whittier

“The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown; The berry's cheek is plumper, The rose is out of town. The maple wears a gayer scarf, The field a scarlet gown. Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on.”

Should Fall Fields Towns Rose Brown Autumn Nuts Cheeks Old Fashioned November Berries Gowns Scarlet Scarves Fall Autumn Fall Season Maple Autumn Season Trinkets October And Fall November Poems

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”

“O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, when the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.”

Heart Fall My Heart Clock Shock Autumn Frost Fodder

Book:The Days Gone by and Other Poems

Source: The Days Gone by and Other Poems

“The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.”

Years Age Fall Sorrow Pressure Gentle Autumn Affliction Tenacity Detached Damp

Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor

Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor

“A single leaf falling autumn is everywhere.”

Fall Autumn Leafs

Author:Frederick Franck

“Deliver me from the long drought of the mind. Let leaves from the deciduous Cross fall on us, washing us clean, turning our autumn to gold by the affluence of their fountain.”

Mind Long Fall Crosses Gold Clean Autumn Fountain Washing Drought Affluence

Author:R. S. Thomas

“Talent has the four seasons: spring, that is to say, the sowing of the seeds; summer, growth; autumn, the harvest; winter, intellectual death. But there is now and then a genius who has no winter, and, no matter how many years he may live, on the blossom of his thought no snow falls. Genius has the climate of perpetual growth.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Tributes and miscellany

“The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood, And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood, Till fell the first from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and glen.”

Men Firsts Long Fall Heaven Gone Clear Cold Summer Died Rose Woods Golden Hills Autumn Yellow Long Ago Violet Plague Brooks Brightness Sunflower Asters

Author:William C. Bryant

“However constant the visitations of sickness and bereavement, the fall of the year is most thickly strewn with the fall of human life. Everywhere the spirit of some sad power seems to direct the time; it hides from us the blue heavens, it makes the green wave turbid; it walks through the fields, and lays the damp ungathered harvest low; it cries out in the night wind and the shrill hail; it steals the summer bloom from the infant cheek; it makes old age shiver to the heart; it goes to the churchyard, and chooses many a grave.”

Source: Endeavors After the Christian Life: Discourses

“Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon to its prospect. The oriental tale is not too vast. Pearls dropping from trees are only falling leaves in autumn. The palace that grew up in a night merely awakens a wish to live in it. The impossibilities of fifty years are the commonplaces of five.”

Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

“An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon.”

Trying Book Fall Rain Average Eight Miles Autumn Temper Dusk

Book:The Gambler: A Novel

Source: The Gambler: A Novel

“Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on.”

Should Fall Autumn Old Fashioned Berries Fall Autumn Fall Season Autumn Season Trinkets October And Fall November Poems

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“It was autumn and falling stars Covered the shrivelled forms Crouched in the moonlight.”

Form Fall Stars Autumn Covered Moonlight

Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“Autumn is the American season. In Europe the leaves turn yellow or brown, and fall. Here they take fire on the trees and hang there flaming. We think this frost-fire is a portent somehow: a promise that the continent has given us. Life, too, we think, is capable of taking fire in this country; of creating beauty never seen.”

Thinking Country Turns Fall Given Fire Tree Promise Creating Capable Europe Seasons Brown Autumn Yellow Continents Frost Creating Beauty Portents

Author:Archibald MacLeish

“Life is the blossoming of flowers in the spring, the ripening of fruit in the fall, the rhythm of the earth and of nature. Life is the cry of cicadas signalling the end of summer, migratory birds winging south in a transparent autumn sky, fish frolicking in a stream. Life is the joy beautiful music installs in us, the thrilling sight of a mountain peak reddened by the rising sun, the myriad combinations and permutations of visible and invisible phenomena. Life is all things.”

“Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. The apples falling like great drops of dew to bruise themselves an exit from themselves.”

Long Death Fall Journey Fruit Apples Autumn Oblivion Dew Exit Bruises Long Journey

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)