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Poem by John Payne
October
OCTOBER, May of the descending days,
Mid-Spring of Autumn, on the shortening stair
Of the year's eld abiding still and fair,
A pause of peace, when all the world at gaze,
'Neath the mild mirage of thy sun-filled haze,
Chewing the cud of Summer's sweets that were,
Lingers, unmindful of the Winter's care,
Yet in thy russet woods and leaf-strewn ways;
Sweet was the Summer, sweeter yet the Spring;
But in these mist-attempered noons of thine,
Hung with the clustering jewels of the vine,
And in thy ruddock's clear, contented lay,
A charm of solace is, that in no thing
To Summer-suns may yield or blossoms gay.
John Payne
Poem Theme: Autumn
John Payne's other poems:- The Foredawn Hour
- September
- July
- August
- June
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") William Bryant October ("Ay, thou art welcome, heaven’s delicious breath!") Alice Cary October ("Not the light of the long blue Summer") Rose Cooke October ("There comes a time of rest to thee") Paul Dunbar October ("OCTOBER is the treasurer of the year") Paul Hayne October ("THE passionate Summer's dead! the sky's a-glow") Hilaire Belloc October ("Look, how those steep woods on the mountain’s face") Ellis Butler October ("The forest holds high carnival to-day") Ella Wilcox October ("Gone are the Spring and Summer from the year") Elinor Wylie October ("Beauty has a tarnished dress") Robert Frost October ("O hushed October morning mild") Ina Coolbrith October ("THE summer-rose is dead") Edgar Guest October ("Days are gettin' shorter an' the air a keener snap")
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