Cousin Helen's Visit (1935).
“Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.”
“And I rose
In rainy autumn
And walked abroad in a shower of all my days…”
Source: Collected Poems
“Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods
And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.”
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.”
Source: Smarra & Trilby
“It was one of those perfect autumn days so common in stories and so rare in the real world.”
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 2, “A Beautiful Day” (p. 19)
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Winter Pear; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
