Autumn Poems

Popular Autumn Poems
Ode To Wine
by Pablo Neruda

Day-colored wine,
night-colored wine,
wine with purple feet
or wine with topaz blood,
wine,
starry child
of earth,
wine, smooth
as a golden sword,
soft

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The Destruction Of Sennacherib
by George Gordon Byron

The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;
And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,
When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.

Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green,
That host with their banners at sunset were seen:
Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown,
That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.


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Luscious Peaches
by Evelyn Judy Buehler

Baskets of peaches
Ripe, juicy, luscious and warm
Tangerine sun goes
Summer left these gifts behind
Like blooms of my memory

Flamingos soon dance
Along the edges of dusk
Beautiful endings
Preserves and pies are waiting

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Uncle Ananias
by Edwin Arlington Robinson

His words were magic and his heart was true,
And everywhere he wandered he was blessed.
Out of all ancient men my childhood knew
I choose him and I mark him for the best.
Of all authoritative liars, too,
I crown him loveliest.

How fondly I remember the delight
That always glorified him in the spring;
The glorious profusion and the benedight

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Tears, Idle Tears
by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.

Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail,
That brings our friends up from the underworld,
Sad as the last which reddens over one
That sinks with all we love below the verge;

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Recent Autumn Poems
Circular Saw
by CK Wendell

In the late fall
After apple picking and around thanksgiving
When the leaves started
To fade from green to red
We’d hook up the PTO from the old Deere
To a massive circular saw
Like something out of a cult horror movie
Coated in flaking layers of leaded rust paint
And under a cloud of diesel exhaust
And the slow blue smoke

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Pretty Melancholy
by Evelyn Judy Buehler

Desolate, windswept trees are shivery,
when red and purple leaves are falling.
Ungathered cherries hang in reverie!
Desolate, windswept trees are shivery,
engaged in multihued, cool creativity.
Goodbye violet birds skyrocket, calling!
Desolate, windswept trees are shivery,
when red and purple leaves are falling.

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Opals
by Evelyn Judy Buehler

Opalescent leaves fall
outside summer's green door.
Outbound, a year sparkles
once age has come with grace.
Orange sun, red roses
of a starry evening.
Old age looks back, dreaming.

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Autumn
by Shreeja Banerjee

The air is crisp and cool

The leaves are red and gold

The trees are shedding their summer clothes

And preparing for the winter cold




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Strawberry Autumn
by Evelyn Judy Buehler

plump red strawberries
the kind we knew last red dusk
when time inched by brusque

garnet stars flash on
scarlet leaves and cardinals
mars phenomenal

crimson dragonflies
when fruitful days are going

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Popular Famous Poets about Autumn
  • Frank O'Hara
    Frank O'Hara (5 poems about Autumn)
    27 March 1926 – 25 July 1966 / Baltimore, Maryland
  • Trumbull Stickney
    Trumbull Stickney (5 poems about Autumn)
    June 20, 1874 – October 11, 1904 / Geneva
  • Matsuo Basho
    Matsuo Basho (4 poems about Autumn)
    1644 - 1694 / Iga Province / Japan
  •  Bai Juyi
    Bai Juyi (3 poems about Autumn)
    772–846 / Taiyuan, Shanxi
  • Dana Gioia
    Dana Gioia (3 poems about Autumn)
    24 December 1950 / Hawthorne, California
  •  Barbara M. Thomas
    Barbara M. Thomas (2 poems about Autumn)
    Lula, Georgia
  • Richard Hugo
    Richard Hugo (2 poems about Autumn)
    1923 - 1982 / Washington / United States
  •  Margot Lindsey
    Margot Lindsey (2 poems about Autumn)
    Los Angeles, California
  •  Mary Jacqueline Simon Moo
    Mary Jacqueline Simon Moo (2 poems about Autumn)
    Jacqueline S. Moore] (1926-2002 / Hannibal, Missouri,
  •  Masaoki Shiki
    Masaoki Shiki (2 poems about Autumn)
    1867 - 1902
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