Autumn, A Season In Verse

By Edith Wharton, Kahil Gibran and John Keats

Autumn – An Introduction. For many of us Autumn, or as the Americans would say; Fall is the season of mixed emotions. Summer’s long days are replaced by a chill in the air. The colours on the trees and fields ripen to warmer hues and the harvest is brought safely home. Yet with this bounty there is the knowledge that Nature is turning her attention to the harder, colder Winter month’s ahead. Our collection of poems amplifies this balance between the loss of summer and the gain of the harvest with wonderful poems by such notables as Shelley, Yeats, Keats, Sheehan, Emily Dickinson and Longfellow. We hope you’ve enjoyed this collection which is one of four in the Seasons collection. All of our other poetry, stories and other audiobooks are available at Amazon, iTunes and other digital stores. For further information please contact us at www.copyrightgroup.info

• Language: English
• Publisher: Copyright Group
• Release date: Sep 24, 2013
• ISBN: 9781780005294

Edith Wharton

EDITH WHARTON (1862 - 1937) was a unique and prolific voice in the American literary canon. With her distinct sense of humor and knowledge of New York’s upper-class society, Wharton was best known for novels that detailed the lives of the elite including: The House of Mirth, The Custom of Country, and The Age of Innocence. She was the first woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and one of four women whose election to the Academy of Arts and Letters broke the barrier for the next generation of women writers.

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Autumn , A Season In Verse

Poetry is a fascinating use of language.  With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries.  In this series we look at each season through the eyes and minds of our most gifted poets to bring you a guide to the days within each.  

For many of us Autumn, or as the Americans would say; Fall is the season of mixed emotions.  Summer’s long days are replaced by a chill in the air.  The colours on the trees and fields ripen to warmer hues and the harvest is brought safely home.  Yet with this bounty there is the knowledge that Nature is turning her attention to the harder, colder Winter month’s ahead.

Our collection of poems amplifies this balance between the loss of summer and the gain of the harvest with wonderful poems by such notables as Shelley, Yeats, Emily Dickinson and Longfellow.       

Many of the poems are also available as an audiobook from our sister company Portable Poetry.  Many samples are at our youtube channel  http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee   The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.  Among the readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe

Index Of Poems

In Autumn by Alice Meynell

Autumn by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To Autumn by William Blake

Autumn Fires by Robert Louis Stevenson

Fall, Leaves, Fall by Emily Jane Brontë

An Autumn Sunset by Edith Wharton

Ode To The West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Wild Swans At Coole by William Butler Yeats

Autumn Within by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Aftermath by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It Is Autumn by Daniel Sheehan

Amongst The Redwoods Giant And Still by Daniel Sheehan

The Trosachs by William Wordsworth

Besides The Autumn Poets Sing by Emily Dickinson

Autumn – Overlooked My Knitting by Emily Dickinson 

Sweetheart Autumn by Vachel Lindsay

The Autumn by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Among The Rocks by Robert Browning

Autumn by Kahil Gibran

Last Week In October by Thomas Hardy

No! by Thomas Hood

Autumn by Anne Bradstreet

Autumn In Cornwall by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Ode To Autumn by John Keats

The Falling of Leaves by William Butler Yeats 

Autumn by Thomas Hood

A Carol Of Harvest For 1867 by Walt Whitman

September, 1819 by William Wordsworth

An Autumn Rain-Scene by Thomas Hardy

Autumn: A Dirge by Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Name—Of It—Is Autumn by Emily Dickinson

Lachin Y Gair by Lord George Gordon Byron

As Toilsome I Wandered Virginia’s Woods by Walt Whitman

As I Ebb’d With The Ocean of Life by Walt Whitman

Leaves Of Grass. A Carol Of Harvest For 1867 by Walt Whitman

Autumn Within by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The First Jasmines by Rabindranath Tagore

Autumn Song by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

To Autumn by John Keats

Besides The Autumn Poets Sing by Emily Dickinson

The Mother Mourns by Thomas Hardy

In Autumn by Alice Meynell

The leaves are many under my feet,

And drift one way.

Their scent of death is weary and sweet.

A flight of them is in the grey

Where sky and forest meet.

The low winds moan for sad sweet years;

The birds sing all for pain,

Of a common thing, to weary ears,--

Only a summer's fate of rain,

And a woman's fate of tears.

I walk to love and life alone

Over these mournful places,

Across the summer overthrown,

The dead joys of these silent faces,

To claim my own.

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