Delicious Autumn, in Poetry . . .

I cannot endure to waste anything as

precious as autumn sunshine by

staying in the house. So I spend almost

all the daylight hours in the open air.

~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Spades take up leaves
No better than spoons,
And bags full of leaves
Are light as balloons.
I make a great noise
Of rustling all day
Like rabbit and deer
Running away.
~Robert Frost

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.

~William Cullen Bryant

All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn,

Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.

~Robert Burns

Youth is like spring, an over praised season more

remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in

flowers we more than gain in fruits.

~Samuel Butler