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“A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our illusions, the light diminishing like our intell...”
“But you can't plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten you, swept everything away for the approaching winter, whirled the leaves. ("The North")”
“Halloween creatures both friendly & gruesome peered out of the rustling leaves.”
“The last dead leaves of fall crackled underfoot, winter-crisp.”
“Dorcas wasn't a fast walker. It was difficult for me to keep behind her. I tried to let others, joggers, and bicyclists, come between us. I followed her past a field where girls were playing soccer...”
“Wind warns November’s done with. The blown leaves make bat-shapes, Web-winged and furious.”
“Autumn was her happiest season. There was an expectancy about its sounds and shapes: the distant thunk pomp of leather and young bodies on the practice field near her house made her think of bands ...”
“And every year there is a brief, startling moment When we pause in the middle of a long walk home and Suddenly feel something invisible and weightless Touching our shoulders, sweeping down from the...”
“It’s fall coming, I thought, I can smell that sour-molasses smell of silage, clanging the air like a bell – smell like somebody’s been burning oak leaves, left them to smolder overnight because the...”
“The mellow autumn came, and with it cameThe promised party, to enjoy its sweets.The corn is cut, the manor full of game;The pointer ranges, and the sportsman beatsIn russet jacket;—lynx-like is his...”
“Autumn has come to northeast Montana. The vapor of one’s breath, the clarity of the stars, the smell of wood smoke, the stones underfoot that even a full day of sunlight won’t warm- these all say t...”
“The melancholy days have come the saddest of the year Of wailing winds and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.”
“The year's in the wane There is nothing adoring The night has no eve And the day has no morning Cold winter gives warning!”
“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.”
