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Autumn Poetry for October and Fall

Deriving inspiration for autumn poetry becomes a whole lot easier by taking a look at various autumn pictures. Not all artists focus on only capturing the bareness and nakedness of nature in their pieces & paintings; many artists make great creative use of autumn leaves to portray divinity and other holy deities.

Autumn Poetry does not necessarily have to only revolve around the state of undress of that the season leaves the lush green meadows in. Rather, you will come across many famous Autumn Poetry pieces that depict lively autumn love Poetry & even more flamboyant autumn leaves Poetry.

Before we look at some renowned pieces of fall poetry, let us check out some famous quotations to the season of nakedness i.e. autumn.

Famous Autumn Quotes

The quotes that you are about to read below capture many different sentiments in them; some are mellow, some are hollow, some full of life, a couple very vivid in the sketching the imagery of autumn pictures, while others void of any verve. Never the less, each quote holds its own ground & worth in the realm of Autumn Poetry.

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

"In the other gardens and all up the vale, from the autumn bonfires see the smoke trail! Pleasant summer over and all the summer flowers, the red fire blazes, the grey smoke towers. Sing a song of seasons! Something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall!"
– Robert Louis Stevenson, Autumn Fires

"Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance.  What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?”
– Hal Borland

"Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to Spring"
– Anonymous

"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show"
– Andrew Wyeth

"Delicious autumn!  My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns"
– George Eliot

"Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all"
– Stanley Horowitz

Autumn Poetry for Kids and Children

While grownups and adults have their own set of emotions which they associate with the fall season, children see fall in a very different light. For them, the rustling of leaves, collection of cocoons and acorns holds thrill within it. Similarly, Autumn Poetry for kids also has a whole special feel to it.

Example # 1

Pretty Leaves
Pretty leaves are falling down,
Green, orange, yellow and brown
Here comes one colored red,
It landed on my head!

Example # 2

In autumn when the trees are brown
The little leaves come tumbling down
They do not make the slightest sound
But lie so quietly on the ground
Until the wind comes puffing by
And blows them off towards the sky

Example # 3

Leaves in the Fall come tumbling down,
Scarlet and yellow, russet and brown,
Leaves in the garden are swept in a heap,
The trees are ready for sleep.

Famous Autumn Poems

  • A Child’s Calendar – November  by John Updike
  • After Apple Picking  by Robert Frost
  • Gathering Leaves  by Robert Frost
  • Leaves  by Elsie Brady
  • Autumn moonlight by Matsuo Basho
  • Sonnet of Autumn by Charles Baudelaire
  • Autumn Movement by Carl Sandburg
  • To Autumn by William Blake
  • Autumn Fires by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Migration of the Grey Squirrels  by William Howitt
  • Nature XXVII, Autumn  by Emily Dickinson
  • Nothing Gold Can Stay  by Robert Frost
  • November Morning  by Evaleen Stein
  • Autumn in the Garden by Henry Van Dyke
  • Autumn Song by Katherine Mansfield
  • Autumn Perspective by Erica Jong
  • Three Pieces on the Smoke of Autumn by Carl Sandburg
  • Ode to Autumn  by John Keats
  • Wherefore Wings  by Evaleen Stein
  • Pumpkin Poem 1
  • Pumpkin Poem 2