Autumn’s fire burns slowly…

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Albert Camus (1913 – 1960)

Now Autumn’s fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

William Allingham (1824 – 1889)

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

Elizabeth Bowen (1899 – 1973)

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!

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 – 1822)

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.

Edward Estlin Cummings (1894 – 1962)

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Robert Browning (1812 – 1889)

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784)

Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.

George Trakl (1887 – 1914)

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

Walter Scott (1771 – 1832)

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

Hal Borland (1900 – 1978)

39 thoughts on “Autumn’s fire burns slowly…”

      1. Thank you, sir. Coming from the esteemed poet who initiates others in the “American sentence” form of haiku, including myself, I am humbled by your review by “autumnal sunrise.” As is often the case, it was inspired by the poetry in your post, Peace.

  1. 🍁🍂🥮Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.🍁🍂🥮
    Of course I would be bias and go for none other.

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