“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).
“Outside, the main doors behind him, he was hit full in the chest by autumn. The doggy wind leapt about him and nipped; leaves skirred along the pavement, the scrape of the ferrules of sticks; melancholy, that tetrasyllable, sat on a plinth in the middle of the square. English autumn, and the whistling tiny souls of the dead round the war memorial.”
Fiction, The Doctor is Sick (1960)
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John Henry Boner (1845–1903) American writer
Gather Leaves and Grasses, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Bill Murray (1950) American actor and comedian
Interview with Thomas Chau http://www.cinecon.com/news.php?id=0412221 <br class="br">Context: Melancholic and lovable is the trick, right? You've got to be able to show that you have these feelings. In the game of life, you get these feelings and how you deal with those feelings. What you do when you are trying to deal with a melancholy. A melancholy can be sweet. It's not a mean thing, but it's something that happens in life — like autumn.
“All that blooth means heavy autumn work for him and his hands.”
Thomas Hardy book The Woodlanders
Source: The Woodlanders (1887), Ch. XIX
