Our anthology of poems for the fall season begins with a selection of classics:
- William Shakespeare,
Sonnet 73 - That time of year thou mayst in me behold (1609)
- William Blake,
To Autumn (1783)
- John Keats,
To Autumn (1820)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley,
Ode To the West Wind (1820)
- John Clare,
Autumn (1821)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
The Autumn (1833)
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti,
Autumn Song (1883)
- Robert Louis Stevenson,
Autumn Fires (1913)
- Gerard Manley Hopkins,
Spring and Fall (1918)
- Carl Sandburg,
Autumn Movement (1918)
- William Butler Yeats,
The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
- Robert Frost,
Nothing Gold Can Stay (1923)
To which weve added a few of the poems on fall themes weve received from contemporary poets:
- Patricia Boutilier, Floridian Mabon
- Jesse Glass, Welcome Back, 1964
- Dorothea Grossman, In the Library
- Mary Hamrick, Autumn
- Ruth Hill, Autumn Colors in the Far North
- Christine Klocek-Lim, Strange Violet Behind Trees
- Judith A. Lawrence, Autumn Offering
- Joseph Pacheco, November Snow
- Jack Peachum, Our Pierrot in Autumn
- Robert Savino, Octobers Opal
- Lisa Shields, Sweater Weather
- Michael Shorb, Geese
Enjoy these poems of the season!