~ Wild is the music of autumnal winds the faded woods. ~
~ Autumn, in his leafless bowers, is waiting for the winter's snow. ~
~ There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been! ~
~ The lands are lit with all the autumn blaze of golden-rod, and everywhere the purple asters nod and bend and wave and flit. ~
~ No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnal face. ~
~ Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ~
~ All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it . . . bearing them all away to the green fields in the South. ~
~ October's poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter. ~
~ Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn. ~
~ A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long. ~
~ Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. ~
~ Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring. ~