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Dear Annie: Celebrate the arrival of autumn with some poems about fall Published: Oct. 30, 2024, 5:33 a.m. Annie Lane tries to set the mood for changing seasons in today's column.
Dear Annie: Five perfect poems for Autumn Published: Oct. 30, 2024, 9:00 a.m. Fall colors wane past peak at Green Lakes State Park in Fayetteville, NY Wednesday, October 23, 2024.
Not unexpectedly, one of the best of these poems was written by Emily Dickinson, a short offering published in 1896 and titled “Nature Poem, 28: Autumn.” It reads, in full: ...
Radio 4 celebrates the Autumn equinox (when night and day are pretty much exactly the same length – 12 hours – all over the world) with a day of poetry.
One poet in particular — E.E. Cummings — is notable for writing love poems that are not only heart-wrenchingly beautiful but are able to give you the words to feelings you don’t completely ...
Reading this poem, I thought of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s notion that ‘‘poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.’’ Here, the less-than-lovely pigeons ...