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Autumn Quotes
Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the deadleaves fall and melt. William Allingham(1824-1889) They travel with a constant companion, autumn. JohannWolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) I know the lands are lit,With all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod. Helen Hunt Jackson(1830-1885) How well I know what I mean to do / When the long, dark autumn-eveningscome. Robert Browning(1812-1889) , By the Fire Side, No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, / As I have seen in oneautumnal face. John Donne (1572-1631),Elegies, 9, `The Autumnal', If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn. Irish Proverb Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt. WilliamAllingham, (1824-1889) The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August,and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hairamidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season toomany. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935) Every season hath its pleasures; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby treasures Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time. Thomas Moore (1779-1852) I saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence. Thomas Hood There is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been! Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822) It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day; the sky was clear andserene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we alwaysassociate with the idea of abundance. The forests had put on theirsober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had beennipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, andscarlet. Washington Irving(1783-1859), from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung likeclusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruitswere jewels . . . Charles Dickens(1812-1870), from Martin Chuzzlewit Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and theair was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glintingdragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wingsand gleaming bodies. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle(1859-1930), from The White Company Return to Nature in Fall from Autumn Quotes
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