Sonnet 104
by William Shakespeare
from The Sonnets
To me fair friend you never can be old
Autumn in Verse
To poets, autumn often symbolizes change, maturity, wisdom, or the harvest. Explore many interpretations of Autumn in this collection of poetry by Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Ellen Robena Field, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Richard Henry Wilde.
Passages
Autumn
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Selected Works
A poem admiring the beauty, differences, and changes in seasonal weather.
The Village Street
by Edgar Allan Poe
from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
In these rapid, restless shadows, Once I walked at eventide,
Sympathy
by Emily Brontë
from Poems of Emily Brontë
Words of sympathy are offered.
To an Old Danish Song-book
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Selected Works
The travels of a tattered and worn songbook
Autumn Fires
by Robert Louis Stevenson
from A Child's Garden of Verses: Selected Poems
The poet muses on fires.
Stanzas
by Richard Henry Wilde
from Florida: Essays and Poems
The author contemplates the cyclical and temporary nature of life.
Time and Eternity, Poem 2
by Emily Dickinson
from The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Series Two
Going to heaven!
Nature, Poem 49: November
by Emily Dickinson
from The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Series Two
Besides the autumn poets sing
Roses
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
from Lyrics of Love and Laughter
"Oh, wind of the spring–time, oh, free wind of May,"
Love's Season
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
from Lyrics of Love and Laughter
"When the bees are humming in the honeysuckle vine"
Nature, Poem 28: Autumn
by Emily Dickinson
from The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Series One
The Morns are meeker than they were
Sonnet 97
by William Shakespeare
from The Sonnets
How like a winter hath my absence been
The Chase
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
from Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow
"The wind told the little leaves to hurry,"
The Veteran
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
from Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow
"Underneath the autumn sky,"
"Merry Autumn"
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
from Lyrics of Lowly Life
"It’s all a farce,—these tales they tell"
A Song
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
from Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow
"On a summer’s day as I sat by a stream,"
Worn Out
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
from Miscellaneous Poems
"You bid me hold my peace"
Nutting Song
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
from Miscellaneous Poems
"The November sun invites me,"
Autumn Sonnet
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Selected Works
A poem centered around Autumn and nature.
Alone
by Edgar Allan Poe
from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
"From childhood's hour I have not been"
“A Fall Song”
by Ellen Robena Field
from Buttercup Gold and Other Stories
A poem describing “The Fall of the Year” or Autumn.