AUTUMN LEAVES POEM FULL

The russet woods stood ripe to be stripped, but were yet full of leaf. 'The gilding of the Indian summer mellowed The fact that the participant in this folk game was usually blindfolded with hands tied behind the back also puts one in mind of a traditional Craft initiation ceremony.' Regeneration, into which the novice's head is immersed. The water-filled tub is a latter-day Cauldron of (The American pumpkin seems to have forever superseded the European gourd as the jack-o-lantern of choice.) Bobbing for apples may well represent the remnants of a Pagan 'baptism' rite called a 'seining', according to some writers. Set on porches and in windows, they cast the same spell of protection over the household. However, it seems clear that it was used as a lantern by people who traveled the road this night, the scary face to frighten away spirits or faeries who might otherwise lead one astray. Various authorities attribute it to either Scottish or Irish origin. Is more beautiful than the month of coming - October than May. Nature glories in death more than in life. To make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last.'įuneral month. The orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, Season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.' 'Youth is like spring, an over-praised season Links, Lore, Poems, Prayers, Preparations, Crafts, Rituals, Quotes Samhain, Halloween: Extensive Bibliography, The wild goose has raised his wonted cry.

'The scarlet of maples can shake me like a cryĭeep-red the bracken, its shape all gone, The pur0ple oak-leaf falls the birchen boughĭrops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.' Quotes, Poems, Sayings, Verses, Lore, Myths, HolidaysĬelebrations, Folklore, Reading, Links, Quotations When idleĬoncerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best season.'Īnd the wren laughs in the early shade nowĬome again shining glance in your good time Moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. 'Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the Sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October.' 'There is no season when such pleasant and The dry scent of a dying garden in September, I am renewed by death, thought of my death, Is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.”Īt the irregular stones, iridescent sandgrains, Stand, shadowless like Silence, listeningĪnd alien everywhere.

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Autumn leaves poem