“O autumn winds that bake and burn
And all the world to darkness turn,
Now storm and seize and make of me…
A swarm of leaves from Autumn’s Tree!”
Source: The Halloween Tree (1972), Chapter 11 (p. 79)
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Ray Bradbury 401
American writer 1920–2012Related quotes
“Burning autumn leaves,
I yearn to make the bonfire
Bigger and bigger.”
Haiku: This Other World (1998)
“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).
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Grass and trees wither; geese go south.”
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St. I
Ode to the West Wind (1819)
Context: O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou,
Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed
The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low,
Each like a corpse within its grave, until
Thine azure sister of the spring shall blow
Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth.
"The Cold Mountain"
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Idiot Wind