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 we’ve added a few of the poems on fall themes we’ve 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, “October’s Opal”
- Lisa Shields, “Sweater Weather”
- Michael Shorb, “Geese”
Enjoy these poems of the season!
