“When everything that ticked has stopped, and space stares, all around, or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, repeal the beating ground.” FirstsFallSpaceStaringAutumnFrostFall SeasonOctober And Fall Book:Dickinson Source: Dickinson
“The leaves do not change color from the blighting touch of the frost, but from the process of natural decay. They fall when the fruit has been ripened and their work is done. And their splendid change of coloring is but their graceful and beautiful surrender of life, when they have finished their summer offering of service to God and man.” MenHas BeensDoneBeautifulFallProcessNaturalColorSummerFruitFinishedSurrenderOfferingDecaySplendidFrostService To God Author:Tryon Edwards
“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.” HeartFallMy HeartClockShockAutumnFrostFodder Book:The Days Gone by and Other Poems Source: The Days Gone by and Other Poems
“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.” ThinkingCountryTurnsFallGivenFireTreePromiseCreatingCapableEuropeSeasonsBrownAutumnYellowContinentsFrostCreating BeautyPortents Author:Archibald MacLeish
“People don't feel so quarrelsome in warm weather. They get crotchety in the fall and begin to go to law about things after the first hard frosts.” PeopleFeelsFirstsHardLawFallWarmWeatherFrostWarm Weather Author:Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth