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“I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet.”

Lying Feet Brown Thick Chill October

Book:John Ingerfield and Other Stories

Source: John Ingerfield and Other Stories

“When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown, Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying, Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town.”

Men Lying Fall White Cities Towns Flying Snow Settling Brown Traffic Flakes Drowsy

Author:Robert Bridges

“Every year, in the deep midwinter, there descends upon this world a terrible fortnight. ... every shop is a choked mass of humanity ... nerves are jangled and frayed, purses emptied to no purposes, all amusements and all occupations suspended in favor of frightful businesses with brown paper, string, letters, cards, stamps, and crammed post offices. This period is doubtless a foretaste of whatever purgatory lies in store for human creatures.”

“Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye, Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, Where graybeard mirth and smiling toil retired, Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round.”

Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: with a biographical memoir of the author, written expressly for this edition

“O'er hill and field October's glories fade; O'er hill and field the blackbirds southward fly; The brown leaves rustle down the forest glade, Where naked branches make a fitful shade, And the lost blooms of Autumn withered lie.”

Lying Lost Fields Glory Forests Naked Hills Branches Brown Autumn Shade Fades October Withered Blackbirds Withered Leaves

Author:George Arnold