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Poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar


October


OCTOBER is the treasurer of the year,
    And all the months pay bounty to her store: 
The fields and orchards still their tribute bear,
    And fill her brimming coffers more and more. 
But she, with youthful lavishness,
Spends all her wealth in gaudy dress,
    And decks herself in garments bold 
    Of scarlet, purple, red, and gold.

She heedeth not how swift the hours fly,
    But smiles and sings her happy life along; 
She only sees above a shining sky;
    She only hears the breezes' voice in song. 
Her garments trail the woodland through,
And gather pearls of early dew
    That sparkle till the roguish Sun 
    Creeps up and steals them every one.

But what cares she that jewels should be lost,
    When all of Nature's bounteous wealth is hers? 
Though princely fortunes may have been their cost,
    Not one regret her calm demeanor stirs. 
Whole-hearted, happy, careless, free,
She lives her life out joyously,
    Nor cares when Frost stalks o'er her way 
    And turns her auburn locks to gray.



Paul Laurence Dunbar

Poem Themes: Autumn, October

Paul Laurence Dunbar's other poems:
  1. Song (My heart to thy heart)
  2. Not They Who Soar
  3. The Old Apple-Tree
  4. The Lawyers' Ways
  5. Passion and Love


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Edward Thomas October ("The green elm with the one great bough of gold")
  • Dinah Craik October ("IT is no joy to me to sit")
  • Rose Cooke October ("There comes a time of rest to thee")
  • Paul Hayne October ("THE passionate Summer's dead! the sky's a-glow")
  • John Payne October ("OCTOBER, May of the descending days")
  • Ellis Butler October ("The forest holds high carnival to-day")
  • Hilaire Belloc October ("Look, how those steep woods on the mountain’s face")
  • Elinor Wylie October ("Beauty has a tarnished dress")
  • Robert Frost October ("O hushed October morning mild")
  • William Bryant October ("Ay, thou art welcome, heaven’s delicious breath!")
  • Ella Wilcox October ("Gone are the Spring and Summer from the year")
  • Ina Coolbrith October ("THE summer-rose is dead")
  • Edgar Guest October ("Days are gettin' shorter an' the air a keener snap")
  • Alice Cary October ("Not the light of the long blue Summer")
  • George Arnold October ("On hill and field October’s glories fade")

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