“Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
Cousin Helen's Visit (1935).
“Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
“And I rose
In rainy autumn
And walked abroad in a shower of all my days…”
Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Welsh poet and writer
Source: Collected Poems
“Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods
And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.”
William Allingham (1824–1889) Irish man of letters and poet
Autumnal Sonnet; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.”
Charles Nodier (1780–1844) French author
Source: Smarra & Trilby
“It was one of those perfect autumn days so common in stories and so rare in the real world.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 2, “A Beautiful Day” (p. 19)
William Allingham (1824–1889) Irish man of letters and poet
The Winter Pear; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).