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The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into it...

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My house completed, and tried and not found wanting by a first Cape Cod year, I went there to spend ...

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Henry BestonThe Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

October arrived, spreading a damp chill over the grounds and into the castle. Madam Pomfrey, the nur...

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Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden ...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

O it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock When the frost is on the punkin and the ...

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Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.

Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves, O flakes of snow, For which, through naked trees, the winds A-mo...

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In Heaven, it is always Autumn".

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal

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John DonneThe Complete Poetry and Selected Prose

The tints of autumn...a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.

Methinks I see the sunset light flooding the river valley, the western hills stretching to the horiz...

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And there, next to me, as the east wind blows in early fall, a season open to great migrations, are ...

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John HayThe Way to the Salt Marsh: A John Hay Reader

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;Conspiring with him h...

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John KeatsComplete Poems and Selected Letters

Dorcas wasn't a fast walker. It was difficult for me to keep behind her. I tried to let others, jogg...

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It’s fall coming, I thought, I can smell that sour-molasses smell of silage, clanging the air like a...

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Ken KeseyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or ...

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Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inn...

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And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling fro...

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I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last...

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I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the h

The last dead leaves of fall crackled underfoot, winter-crisp.

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to preven...

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I love autumn", Emily said to me. "It wins you over with its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bou...

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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life...

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Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, wri...

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At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in...

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Please, please, help me grow to be like them, the ones'll soon be here, who never grow old, can't di...

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That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and t...

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The dust was antique spice, burnt maple leaves, a prickling blue that teemed and sifted to earth. Sw...

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Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes

I was only twelve. But I knew how much I loved her. It was that love that comes before all significa...

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I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to...

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Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn,Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding

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Robert BurnsComplete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

GATHERING LEAVESSpades take up leavesNo better than spoons,And bags full of leavesAre light as ballo...

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There is a time in the last few days of summer when the ripeness of autumn fills the air.

The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is b...

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Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

The one red leaf, the last of its clan,That dances as often as dance it can,Hanging so light, and ha...

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...the air has that bracing autumnal bite so that all you want to do is bob for apples or hang a wit...

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Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the day...

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But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime af...

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August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

Wind warns November’s done with. The blown leaves make bat-shapes, Web-winged and furious.

These marvels were great and comfortable ones, but in the old England there was a greater still. The...

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No sun—no moon! No morn—no noon—No dawn— No sky—no earthly view— No distance looking blue—No road—no...

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I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

I saw old Autumn in the misty mornStand shadowless like silence, listeningTo silence, for no lonely ...

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The year's in the wane There is nothing adoring The night has no eve And the day has no morning ...

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She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine ...

[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, o...

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The perfect weather of Indian Summer lengthened and lingered, warm sunny days were followed by brisk...

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Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orc

The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus ...

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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

The bleak autumn wind was still blowing, and the solemn, surging moan of it in the wood was dreary a...

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Wilkie CollinsReign of Terror Volume 2: Great Victorian Horror Stories

But you can't plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten...

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Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.Aut...

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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no per...

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In my own shire, if I was sadHomely comforters I had:The earth, because my heart was sore,Sorrowed f...

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Seen on a night in November How frail Above the bulk Of crashing water hangs, Autumn, evanescent, wa...

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Adelaide CrapseyVerse by Adelaide Crapsey

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Sad; so sad, those smoky-rose, smoky-mauve evenings of late autumn, sad enough to pierce the heart. ...

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Let whoever wants to, relax in the south,And bask in the garden of paradise.Here is the essence of n...

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Anna AkhmatovaThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Flowers, cold from the dew,And autumn's approaching breath,I pluck for the warm, luxuriant braids,Wh...

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Anna AkhmatovaThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

THERE is something in the autumn that is native to my blood— Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my...

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LONDON. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacab...

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...as the slow sea sucked at the shore and then withdrew, leaving the strip of seaweed bare and the ...

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Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even sayi...

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Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meado...

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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac...

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The spring, summer, is quite a hectic time for people in their lives, but then it comes to autumn, a...

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AUTUMNAL Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees, That hardly sway before a bre...

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Ernest DowsonThe Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson

When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet a...

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Eudora WeltyThe Collected Stories

He watched her for several minutes. Something was stirred in him, something not accounted for by the...

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A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fad...

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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth see...

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Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature ha...

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The gold and scarlet leaves that littered the countryside in great drifts whispered and chuckled amo...

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Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable...the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street.....

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Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a ...

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I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met...

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Autumn was her happiest season. There was an expectancy about its sounds and shapes: the distant thu...

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Harper LeeGo Set a Watchman

By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best ...

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I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.

The goldenrod is yellow,The corn is turning brown...The trees in apple orchardsWith fruit are bendin...

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