Autumn Poems

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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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The Vagabond
by Robert Louis Stevenson

Give to me the life I love,
Let the lave go by me,
Give the jolly heaven above
And the byway nigh me.
Bed in the bush with stars to see,
Bread I dip in the river -
There's the life for a man like me,
There's the life for ever.

Let the blow fall soon or late,

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The City Bushman
by Henry Lawson

It was pleasant up the country, City Bushman, where you went,
For you sought the greener patches and you travelled like a gent;
And you curse the trams and buses and the turmoil and the push,
Though you know the squalid city needn't keep you from the bush;
But we lately heard you singing of the 'plains where shade is not',
And you mentioned it was dusty -- 'all was dry and all was hot'.

True, the bush 'hath moods and changes' -- and the bushman hath 'em, too,
For he's not a poet's dummy -- he's a man, the same as you;
But his back is growing rounder -- slaving for the absentee --

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1914
by Wilfred Owen

War broke: and now the Winter of the world
With perishing great darkness closes in.
The foul tornado, centred at Berlin,
Is over all the width of Europe whirled,
Rending the sails of progress. Rent or furled
Are all Art's ensigns. Verse wails. Now begin
Famines of thought and feeling. Love's wine's thin.
The grain of human Autumn rots, down-hurled.

For after Spring had bloomed in early Greece,

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Sonnet Xxv
by Pablo Neruda

Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own:
I wavered through the streets, among
Objects:
Nothing mattered or had a name:
The world was made of air, which waited.

I knew rooms full of ashes,
Tunnels where the moon lived,
Rough warehouses that growled 'get lost',
Questions that insisted in the sand.

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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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