Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the ...

With the elegance of the Heian period, the meaning of autumn leaves sent by a woman to a man. I have created a scene for that ...

Across centuries and continents, poets have turned to autumn as a mirror of human experience: a time when beauty and decay, fullness and farewell, coexist. From Shakespeare’s trembling sonnets to ...

That snap in the air can only mean one thing: it’s autumn, the perfect season for curling up with a poem—or eleven. We’ve gathered some favorite examples of verse about the season by beloved poets ...

More than any other season, autumn reminds us of time’s passing and of our own transience. Everything about us is in motion; the cascade of leaves, the rapid succession of colors, and the onset of ...

My high school Korean teacher was a published poet. During class, they occasionally introduced poems not found in textbooks.

May Sarton was a novelist and an avid keeper of journals, but she considered herself a poet above all else. Novels and journals, she said in 1983, are concerned with growth over time, but “the poem is ...