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The poem featured in this post, Autumn Leaves, is found in Mary A. Maitland's book by the same title, published in 1907. Amidst the autumn gloom and the sad sight of fallen and crushed leaves, the poet is reminded that seasons will change again, ending the sense of grief and pain.
The following short sonnet, written by the famous Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874โ1942), is about the transitory nature of autumn. Standing between summer and winter, the month of September is still warm and delightful, but there are telling signs of change in the air...
In this post I'd like to draw your attention to several podcast episodes that I've recently enjoyed listening to, all on the topic of autumn.
There's about a dozen poets that I've always felt a special affinity to. Some well-known names are among them, such as Rainer Maria Rilke, Walt Whitman and Robert Frost, but there are also those whose works seem to have fallen out of favour with the reading public and who are no longer household names. One …
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