Autumn Poems

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)
  
  
• 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”
  
  
• Dorothea Grossman, “In the Library”
  
  
• Judith A. Lawrence, “Autumn Offering”
  
  
• Joseph Pacheco, “November Snow”
  
  
• Jack Peachum, “Our Pierrot in Autumn”
  
  
• Lisa Shields, “Sweater Weather”

Enjoy these poems of the season!