Fifty Shades of Autumn: 50 of the best poems about autumn

Written by Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Algernon Charles Swinburne and 6 more

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Gedeon Wagner and Ghizela Rowe

Nature continues to give. Riots of colour, of harvest are summoned. It seems almost at will. Her palette is richer. There is a depth to everything, made deeper still by the sun beginning to hang lower in the sky, it’s light denser, glowing at dawn and at twilight, enriching everything it falls upon.

Our classic poets take stock. They have seen her bounty – this act of giving – many times before. Yet, yet still it’s majesty almost refuses the salute of words. Undaunted their verse is given, connections and revelations fall upon the page.

In fifty poems we take you on their inspiring journey, reflecting on the miracle of Autumn.

01 - Fifty Shades of Autumn - An Introduction

02 - Ode to Autumn by John Keats

04 - Autumn by Thomas Hood

05 - Autumn by Kahlil Gibran

06 - September by George Arnold

07 - Autumn by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

08 - Written in September 1804 by Christian Milne

09 - A Calendar of Sonnets - September by Helen Hunt Jackson

10 - Lines Written Beneath An Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow On The Hill Sept 2nd 1807 by George Gordon Byron

11 - September by Janet Hamilton

12 - September by Carlos Wilcox

13 - Autumn Song by Dante Gabriel Rosetti

14 - Lines Written On the 6th September by Thomas Gent

15 - Late September by Amy Lowell

16 - Autumn Dawn by Charles Sorley

17 - An Autumn Sunset by Edith Wharton

18 - An Autumn Rain Scene by Thomas Hardy

19 - Autumn in Sussex by Radclyffe Hall

20 - Autumn In Cornwall by Algernon Charles Swinburne

21 - October 1915 by Dora Sigerson Shorter

22 - October by George Arnold

23 - Autumn by Anne Bradstreet

24 - October by John Payne

25 - October Musings 1866 by Janet Hamilton

26 - October by John Jay Chapman

27 - October by Paul Laurence Dunbar

28 - In Autumn by Alice Meynell

29 - Through October Fields by James Edwin Campbell

30 - Autumn, 1914 by Mary Webb

31 - North Wind in October by Robert Seymour Bridges

32 - Give Me October's Meditative Haze by Alfred Austin

33 - An October Garden by Christina Georgina Rossetti

34 - October on the Sheep Range by Arthur Chapman

35 - The Autumn by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

36 - November Song by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

37 - The Name of it is Autumn by Emily Dickinson

38 - November by John Clare

39 - Autumn Overlooked My Knitting by Emily Dickinson

40 - A November Note by Alfred Austin

41 - To a Robin in November by William Wilfred Campbell

42 - November Findings, November 1862 by Janet Hamilton

43 - In November by Archibald Lampman

44 - November by William Cullen Bryant

45 - In Autumn Moonlight by Robert Seymour Bridges

46 - November by John Keble

47 - November by John Payne

48 - Love in Autumn by Sara Teasdale

49 - In November by Phillip Henry Savage

50 - Autumn Within by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

51 - Autumn - A Dirge by Percy Bysshe Shelley

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Jan 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781839676765

Lord Byron

Lord Byron was an English poet and the most infamous of the English Romantics, glorified for his immoderate ways in both love and money. Benefitting from a privileged upbringing, Byron published the first two cantos of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage upon his return from his Grand Tour in 1811, and the poem was received with such acclaim that he became the focus of a public mania. Following the dissolution of his short-lived marriage in 1816, Byron left England amid rumours of infidelity, sodomy, and incest. In self-imposed exile in Italy Byron completed Childe Harold and Don Juan. He also took a great interest in Armenian culture, writing of the oppression of the Armenian people under Ottoman rule; and in 1823, he aided Greece in its quest for independence from Turkey by fitting out the Greek navy at his own expense. Two centuries of references to, and depictions of Byron in literature, music, and film began even before his death in 1824.