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Fall Poems

Poems to read as the leaves change and the weather gets colder.

By The Editors

Beautiful autumn forest, Norfolk, UK.

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AUTUMN LEAVES

- Autumn
Grace Paley
- Autumn Song
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- The Beautiful Changes
Richard Wilbur

NATURE IN AUTUMN

- End of Summer
Stanley Kunitz
- For the Chipmunk in My Yard
Robert Gibb
- Beyond the Red River
Thomas McGrath
- To Autumn
John Keats
- My Autumn Leaves
Bruce Weigl
- November for Beginners
Rita Dove
- When the Frost is on the Punkin
James Whitcomb Riley

CYCLE OF LIFE

- Final Autumn
Annie Finch
- Among the Rocks
Robert Browning
- Autumn
T. E. Hulme
- November Night
Adelaide Crapsey

REMEMBRANCES

- The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
- Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold
William Shakespeare
- A Reminiscence
Richard O. Moore
- Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
James Wright

THE HARVEST

- Neighbors in October
David Baker
- Beginning
James Wright
- The Thrush
Edward Thomas
- September Tomatoes
Karina Borowicz

HALLOWEEN

- Theme in Yellow
Carl Sandburg
- The Empty House
Walter de La Mare
- Halloween Party
Kenn Nesbitt
- Song of the Witches: “Double, double toil and trouble”
William Shakespeare