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In a world of universal poverty
The philosophers alone will be fat
Against the autumn winds
In an autumn that will be perpetual.
(Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery.")
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I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
Stand shadowless like Silence, listening
To silence,
(Thomas Hood (1799-1845), British poet. Autumn (l. 1-3). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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Thou blossom bright with autumn dew,
And colored with the heaven's own blue,
(William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), U.S. poet. To the Fringed Gentian (l. 1-2). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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It is enough
To smell, to crumble the dark earth,
While the robin sings over again
Sad songs of Autumn mirth.
(Edward Thomas (1878-1917), British poet. Digging (l. 13-16). . .
Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press.)
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Autumn resumes the land, ruffles the woods
with smoky wings, entangles them.
(Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932), British poet. An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England. . .
New & Collected Poems, 1952-1992 [Geoffrey Hill]. (1994) Houghton Mifflin.)
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The teeming Autumn big with rich increase,
Bearing the wanton burden of the prime
Like widowed wombs after their lords' decease.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Sonnet 97.)
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By all these lovely tokens
September days are here,
With summer's best of weather
And autumn's best of cheer.
(Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885), U.S. writer ("H. H."; "Saxe Holm"). September (l. 17-20). . .
Oxford Book of Children's Verse in America, The. Donald Hall, ed. (1985) Oxford University Press.)
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Parting is a trailing streamer,
Lingering like leaves in autumn....
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "As a war in years of peace.")
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Where are the braves, the faces like autumn fruit,
who stared at the child from the coloured frontispiece?
(Abraham Moses Klein (1909-1972), Canadian poet. Indian Reservation: Caughnawaga (l. 1-2). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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In autumn, when the leaves are brown,
Take pen and ink, and write it down.
(Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-1898), British poet. Through the Looking-Glass. . ;
pseud. of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938) Oxford University Press.)
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