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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: OCTOBER Matches Found: 131 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A ROSE IN OCTOBER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I strayed, all alone, where the Last Line: She'd bloom for me aye, as -- my wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Marriage; October; Roses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A SONG FOR OCTOBER, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Fruitful october! So fair and calm Last Line: Chords of my heart give back to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Frost; Music & Musicians; October; Praise; Singing & Singers; Songs A VAGABOND SONG, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood Last Line: She calls and calls each vagabond by name. Variant Title(s): An Autumn Song Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons; Wandering & Wanderers; Fall; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes A YEAR'S CAROLS: OCTOBER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: October of the tawny crown Last Line: To know what joy would fain forget. Subject(s): Happiness; October; Seasons; Joy; Delight ACROSS THE BRIDGE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Away across the bridge they go Last Line: They hurry back—I wonder why! Subject(s): Night; October; Time; Bedtime AFTER GOING BEYOND TALLEY ABBEY IN OCTOBER, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was ever valley road so full of sound Last Line: Turn in his tracks and swiftly steal away. Subject(s): October; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Roads; Travel; Wales; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips; Welshmen; Welshwomen AMBITION, by RANN KENNEDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yet these are but a herald band Last Line: And loud-voiced trumpets his approach declare! Subject(s): Ambition; October AUTUMN PLAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: World, to-day you're red and gold Last Line: Who could call you sad or old? Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons; Fall AUTUMNAL CHARACTERISTICS, by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In sunny spots of woodland, boys are gathering walnuts, and shouting Last Line: Pity, that the frosty night will so soon stop their music! Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons BRIEF WORDS FOR OCTOBER, by ELMO RUSS Poem Text First Line: Crying like a dervish born of dark Last Line: To sing a hush-hush sound. Subject(s): Autumn; Night; October; Seasons; Time; Fall; Bedtime CHAIRS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Indian children squat upon the ground Last Line: For squatting is all right, they find. Subject(s): Native Americans - Children; October COLUMBUS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: An italian boy that liked to play Last Line: And the wisest know he was more than wise. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers ESPECIALLY WHEN THE OCTOBER WIND, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: By the sea's side hear the dark-vowelled birds Subject(s): October FACING INTO IT; FOR LARRY LEVIS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So it is here, then, after so long, and after all Last Line: And winter in straw. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Autumn; Desolation; Disasters; October; Seasons; Storms; Fall HALLOWE'EN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The time when bats fly through the / rooms Last Line: That's when wishes all come true. Subject(s): Ghosts; Halloween; October; Pumpkins; Supernatural HIDING, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: Because the moon in late october made landmarks glow: the broken gate, our yar Last Line: Materializing through trees. Subject(s): Children; October; Sisters; Youth HIKING WITH AARON PAST SUGAR HOLLOW RESERVOIR, by MILES G. WATSON Poem Source First Line: This creek's low enough %in october to hike zigzag upstream Last Line: A hudred circles schooling past, %shaking into rainbows Subject(s): Brooks; Hiking; October I'VE COME HERE LOOKING, by PHILIP MEMMER Poem Source First Line: For exactly this chill, this atlantic damp Last Line: From center stage, blues in the neon lamps Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; October IMMORTAL BEAUTY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath october's paling sun how fair Last Line: Like these winged florets, this october day. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Autumn; Beauty; Immortality; October; Seasons; Fall IN COLUMBUS' TIME, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Suppose you lived then, do you think Last Line: "laughed in his face and said, ""pooh, pooh""?" Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers IN LATE OCTOBER, by EDWIN GLADDING BURROWS Poem Source First Line: My ear may have it wrong Last Line: Who sometimes sing Subject(s): Nature; October IN OCTOBER, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now comes the sunset of the verdant year Last Line: That breathes of peace and rest. Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons; Fall IN OCTOBER, by CLAIRE MALROUX Poem Source First Line: October its brilliance Last Line: Imposes loving hands %upon the cold Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Claire Sara Subject(s): October IN OUR OCTOBER WINDFALL TIME RED, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You learn to eat around the wormholes Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Nature; October IN THE MONTH OF GREEN FIRE, by SOPHIE HIMMELL Poem Source First Line: Let us remember the yellow Subject(s): October INDIANA BEECH WOODS: OCTOBER, by ETHEL ARNOLD TILDEN Poem Text First Line: Flakes of copper and gold Last Line: Out of the glistening beechwood. Subject(s): Beech Trees; October; Trees ISABEL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Our columbus, wise and brave Last Line: All honor to queen isabel! Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Sea Voyages; U.s. - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers LATE AUTUMN, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: October, - and the skies are cool and grey Last Line: His perfect harvesting; he sleeps at ease. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Autumn; Decay; Harvest; October; Seasons; Fall; Rot; Decadence LATE OCTOBER, by SARA KING CARLETON Poem Source First Line: The scent of rotted apples Subject(s): October LATE OCTOBER, by D. M. JORDAN Poem Text First Line: How peacefully the sunlight fell Last Line: Beneath the gray skies of october. Subject(s): October LATE OCTOBER, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight. The cats under the open window Last Line: On end, afraid of what I might do next. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dreams; October; Violence; Nightmares LATE OCTOBER, by KAY MULLEN Poem Source First Line: Leaves rose-hip red, remnants of orange Last Line: At home she would be waiting, %wash-bucket and whistling kettle Subject(s): Home; October; Oranges LIGHT AND SHADE: CLEARING, by CHRISTIAN WIMAN Poem Source First Line: It was when I walked lost Last Line: As for a moment I believed, %before I walked on Subject(s): Leaves; October LOST OCTOBER, by ELAINE V. EMANS Poem Text First Line: There never comes a day like this - all gold Last Line: It was too late to climb the golden hill? Subject(s): October MALLEE IN OCTOBER, by FLEXMORE HUDSON Poem Source First Line: When clear october suns unfold Subject(s): October MILKWEED, by ROBERT CLAPS Poem Source First Line: Dry october, the roadside asters gone to seed Last Line: For october's quick dark Subject(s): Day; Night; October MONADNOCK IN OCTOBER, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Uprose monadnock in the northern blue Last Line: About monadnock builded to the lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Monadnock (mountain), New Hampshire; New Hampshire; October NERVES GRIND QUIETLY IN THE TWILIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The eyes gaze quiet at the fading embers Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; October; Seasons NEW GOLD, by MARY LEONARD WEST Poem Text First Line: New gold that surges up the hollow Last Line: New gold. Subject(s): Apollo; Gold; Mythology - Classical; October NEW MOON, END OF OCTOBER, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: Morning met the grass in whiteness Last Line: Star-still, darker %still Subject(s): Moon; October NORTH WIND IN OCTOBER, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the golden glade the chestnuts are fallen all Last Line: He passeth, and all again for a while is bright. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): October; Wind NOTHING IS REAL IN OCTOBER, by CAROL B. DECANIO Poem Source First Line: The weather itself %undecided Last Line: Waiting for november %to begin Subject(s): October; Seasons; Weather OCTOBER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There comes a month in the weary year Last Line: The vanished hounds and the lucky shots Subject(s): October OCTOBER, by MARIE DAVIES WARREN BECKNER Poem Text First Line: October is gowned in brilliant red Last Line: To hold back gray november skies. Subject(s): October OCTOBER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, thou art welcome, heaven's delicious breath Last Line: Pass silently from men, as thou dost pass. Subject(s): October OCTOBER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the world a-muse, and earth and sky Last Line: Down unillumined aisles the requiem wind. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Mythology - Classical; Nature; October; Pan (mythology); Sky; World OCTOBER, by JORGE CARRERA ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: October: nut and apple of the months Last Line: With your weights and measures Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons OCTOBER, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: In vain I see the trees still green Last Line: It is finished Subject(s): Nature; October; Seasons OCTOBER, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: October is the treasure of the year Last Line: Aud turns her auburn locks to gray. Subject(s): October OCTOBER, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Days are gettin' shorter an' the air a keener snap Last Line: Everything is ripe for harvest an' the frost is back again. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): October OCTOBER, by ORLANDO EMERY HARVEY Poem Text First Line: Let us sing an ode to autumn Last Line: Heav'n for those who do his will. Alternate Author Name(s): Harvey, O. E. Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons; Fall OCTOBER, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Afar from the city, its cark and care Last Line: This prince of the months, -- october! Subject(s): October OCTOBER, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bending above the spicy woods which blaze Last Line: Of red and purple mists, the summer, pale, %steals back for one more song and dance! Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): October OCTOBER, by D. M. JORDAN Poem Text First Line: Oh, haunting dreams of a sweet summer dead! Last Line: Where you will bloom more infinitely fair. Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons; Fall OCTOBER, by PATRICK KAVANAGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O leafy yellowness you create for me Last Line: A man is ploughing ground for winter wheat %and my nineteen years weigh heavily on my feet Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick Subject(s): October OCTOBER, by EDGAR DANIEL KRAMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sumacs in the fence rows are blood-red Last Line: "that tremulously laughs, ""there is no death!" Subject(s): October OCTOBER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay, gentle sunshine, stay Last Line: Shall pay you with a kiss. Subject(s): October; Sun; Wind OCTOBER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At my feet the stream flows backwards Last Line: Only larger, like two wings of ice. Subject(s): Fear; October; Self OCTOBER, by HELEN PRICE Poem Text First Line: Fill my lungs with october wind Last Line: In a heart too full for singing! Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; October; Seasons; Wind; Fall OCTOBER, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First days in autumn make me catch my breath Last Line: Such beauty wantonly for death to spend. Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons; Fall OCTOBER, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The pippins swinging on the bending boughs Last Line: Her gold hair tossing in the autumn wind. Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons; Fall OCTOBER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are drinking the wine of the ages Last Line: Is an angel at the door. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons; Fall OCTOBER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the land a faint blue veil of mist Last Line: Whereof ye nevermore shall be possessed. Subject(s): October; Soldiers' Writings OCTOBER, by HENRI DEWITT SAYLOR Poem Text First Line: There's a murmur in the meadow Last Line: For the pageantry of fall. Subject(s): Beauty; Fields; Gardens & Gardening; October; Pastures; Meadows; Leas OCTOBER, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sweetest month, that pourest from full hands Last Line: And death alone can bring the richest gain. Subject(s): October OCTOBER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold, the fleeting swallow Last Line: Pursue the phantoms gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): October OCTOBER, by ELEANOR ROSS TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: All summer, longing for his winter sleep Last Line: I greet it with a predatory yawn Subject(s): October OCTOBER, by MARGERY ATWOOD TODHAL Poem Text First Line: There is a sense of rich fulfilment here Last Line: Share the character of their common dust. Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons; Fall OCTOBER, by BLANCHE A. WHEATLEY Poem Text First Line: The sumac's torch is now aflame Last Line: In matchless pageantry. Subject(s): October OCTOBER, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves fall from my fingers Last Line: Its wafer a burn on my tongue, %its wine deep forgetfulness Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): October; Religion OCTOBER, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty has a tarnished dress Last Line: Rough gold and red. Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): October OCTOBER, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Black and gold and red and brown Last Line: Dancing down the west. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; October OCTOBER (1), by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I oft have met her slowly wandering Last Line: Within her gaze the deeps of life and death. Subject(s): October OCTOBER (1), by THOMAS WILLARD CLARK Poem Source First Line: Autumn rain falls soundfully from sky to roof, roof to Last Line: Remorseful, dully percussive serenade of infinite droplets Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Tom Subject(s): October OCTOBER (2), by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long hosts of sunlight, and the bright wind blows Last Line: Watching the leaves drift down. Subject(s): October OCTOBER (2), by THOMAS WILLARD CLARK Poem Source First Line: Fall -- dust of Last Line: Subjective sludge %of old age Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Tom Subject(s): October OCTOBER - A SKETCH, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In spring, in summer, in autumnal wane Last Line: Quiet and contemplation mantle all! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Autumn; Cold; Leaves; October; Seasons; Fall OCTOBER BEAUTY, by MARY E. SOULE Poem Text First Line: October rears an altar on the hills Last Line: Her cavalcade of wind-blown leaves sweeps by. Subject(s): October OCTOBER DAWN, by L. KATHLEEN KITTERMAN Poem Text First Line: Softly all nature rocks the cradled world Last Line: The certain resurrection of the spring. Subject(s): Dawn; October; Sunrise OCTOBER DAYS, by RUBY ALORA PEAPLON Poem Text First Line: Summer days and birds are gone Last Line: With moonbeams over all lands. Subject(s): Nature; October OCTOBER EGG ALL DAY, by JOANNE LOWERY Poem Source First Line: From what great golden goose Last Line: He smells the beauty in our blood, %fe fi fo fum, black weight Subject(s): Fairy Tales; October OCTOBER EVENING, by LEON DIERX Poem Text First Line: A tremor slides from the hill-slopes down to the plains Last Line: Whirls and falls on paths that no feet tread. Subject(s): Evening; October; Sunset; Twilight OCTOBER GARDEN, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: My garden feels the touch of fall Last Line: Will show her to the world a slattern! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; October OCTOBER GOLD, by ISABEL NEILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wade through golden waters Last Line: Stores of october gold. Subject(s): October OCTOBER IN CONNECTICUT, by LOUISE B. OLMSTEAD JENNINGS Poem Text First Line: Oh! October the king of the months is here Last Line: King october we love thee, we can't let thee go! Subject(s): Connecticut; October OCTOBER IN INDIANA, by JOHN ROBERT MOORE Poem Text First Line: Not the brown oakleaf, nor the sumach's red Last Line: To read old stories by the winter's fire. Subject(s): Indiana; October OCTOBER IN THE KINGDOM OF THE POOR, by LORNA GOODISON Poem Source First Line: October, month for rainy weather Last Line: The stars just come and encircle my head %in a gracious diad Subject(s): Africa; Ancestors And Ancestry; October; Poverty OCTOBER MOON, NEW ENGLAND CHURCH, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: The full moon's reflected light Last Line: You take with you, into the sun Subject(s): Nature; October OCTOBER MUSINGS: 1866, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silent, grave, subdued, and sober Last Line: Shall wake to life my sleeping dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; October; Dead, The OCTOBER THOUGHTS: 1862, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A solemn, tender melancholy Last Line: Shall call him yet to guard her shrine. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Nature; October; War; Dead, The; Liberty OCTOBER TWILIGHT, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The yellowed leaves are quiet, dusk is here Last Line: Shipwrecked upon october's tawny shore. Subject(s): Dusk; October OCTOBER'S BRIGHT BLUE WEATHER, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O suns and skies and clouds of june Last Line: October's bright blue weather. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons; Fall OCTOBER'S HEART OF GOLD, by JOY WILLIAMS HARMON Poem Text First Line: It was autumn, I remember Last Line: Giving october's heart pure gold. Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons; Fall OCTOBER'S SUN, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: O liberal sun in fair october's sky Last Line: Redeems the soul least worth to one most fair. Subject(s): Light; October; Sun OCTOBER, 1863, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Month of storm, beat shocks and sheaves Last Line: Finds you more wise, more chaste, more sober. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Nature; October OCTOBER, 1865, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As by the deathbed of an aged saint Last Line: Her sleepers in the dust—to die no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Nature; October; Serenity OCTOBER-JUNE, by HAZEL FRYE SCHWENTKER Poem Text First Line: Something priceless to behold Last Line: Singing-sad october-june. Subject(s): June; October OCTOBER: 1859, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again, again, and yet again Last Line: Even in the shadows of the tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; October; Dead, The OCTOBER: 1861, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not changeful april, with her suns and showers Last Line: My life's decline—my solemn—last october. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Nature; October; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The OCTOER WOODS, by EMMA INGOLD BOST Poem Text First Line: Come, let us roam the october woods Last Line: Until her sun is setting. Subject(s): October OLD OCTOBER, by THOMAS CONSTABLE Poem Text First Line: Hail, old october, bright and chill Last Line: Thank goodness, old october's here! Subject(s): Friendship; October ON THE WAY TO THE GALA, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: It is warm for mid-october Last Line: Languorously to itself beside a young man vanishing in mid-october Subject(s): October; Parties OREGON IN OCTOBER, by VIOLET M. HOWARD Poem Text First Line: Vining maple burning red Last Line: One wanders through october. Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons; Fall PALOS, SPAIN, 1492, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: What a stir in the harbor! Last Line: Columbus -- had found a world! Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers PAVANE FOR OCTOBER, by BETTY PAGE DABNEY Poem Text First Line: Tarry not to tell Last Line: Now is time for sleeping. Subject(s): October PEACH SKY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The big october moon Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Evening; Nature; October PORTENTS, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: October fades out in its special colors Subject(s): October; Death; Transience; Dead, The; Impermanence PROMENADES AND INTERIORS, SELECTION, by FRANCOIS COPPEE Poem Text First Line: I am writing near the lamp. It's fine weather. Pleasant stillness Last Line: Mother, blessèd among all women may you be! Subject(s): Cold; Memory; October; Weather; Writing & Writers PSYCHE SAID, by MARC STEVEN COHEN Poem Source First Line: The wiched have tremendous staying power.' Last Line: Then the train left the station Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; October; Psyche (mythology) SEEING, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Not the eye alone can do the seeing part Last Line: But he who would see crystal clear must view things with his heart. Subject(s): Emotions; Hearts; Love; October SHEPHERD'S CALENDAR: OCTOBER, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature now spreads around in dreary blue Last Line: Then all is still oer wood and field and plain %as nought had been and nought would be again Subject(s): October SONG FOR COLUMBUS DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I took my three little trusty boats Last Line: The niña, and santa marie. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; U.s. - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers SONG OF COLUMBUS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Columbus was a brave man Last Line: Or sail-boats three! Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers SONNET: OCTOBER, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The passionate summer's dead! The sky's a-glow Last Line: To swell the purple pomp that floateth by. Subject(s): October SONNETS OF THE MONTHS: OCTOBER, by GIACOMO DI MICHELE Poem Source First Line: Next, for october, to some sheltered coign Last Line: Inheriting the cream of christian life Alternate Author Name(s): Folgore Da San Gimignano; Di Michele, Giacomo Subject(s): October; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE LITTLE LEAF, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And so, the little leaf flew far – o far Last Line: And find where the little brook found the sea. Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Nature; October; Seasons; Wind; Fall THE POET'S CALENDAR: OCTOBER, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My ornaments are fruits; my garments leaves Last Line: And mingled voices of the doves and crows. Subject(s): October THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: OCTOBER, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cuddie, for shame! Hold up thy heavye head Last Line: Cuddie shall have a kidde to store his farme. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): October THE THREE LITTLE SHIPS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: There, are great big ships and they / ride all day Last Line: The pinta, the niña, the santa marie. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Ships & Shipping; U.s. - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE TREE'S DOUBLE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How beautiful the tree shadows lie on Last Line: Dances upon the grass to the same measure. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Autumn; God; October; Seasons; Shadows; Trees; Fall THIS EVENING, by CAMILLE MAUCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am sketched this evening Last Line: In the sadness of swans and the dew. Subject(s): Evening; Mourning; October; Silence; Sunset; Twilight; Bereavement TO OCTOBER, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not changeful april, with her suns and showers Last Line: With tender magic charm my heart and eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): October TREGARDOCK, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mist that from the moor arose Subject(s): Cornwall, England; October ULALUME, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The skies they were ashen and sober Last Line: This ghoul-haunted woodland of weir Variant Title(s): Ulalume - A Ballad;ulalume - A Ballad (2) Subject(s): Auber, Daniel Francois (1782-1871); Death; Halloween; Landscape; Love - Loss Of; Mysticism; October; Soul; Supernatural; Weir, Robert Walter (1803-1889); Dead, The UNDER THE REDHAW TREE, by RUTH GENEVIEVE WORK IODICE Poem Source First Line: Late october, leaden sky Last Line: Late october, leaden sky Subject(s): October; Trees VIEW FROM THE WOODS, by JACK BARRACK Poem Source First Line: Two shopping carts, runaways turned feral Last Line: Among neon signs in macaw-painted cold Subject(s): Leaves; October; Retail Trade WEATHER REPORT: OCTOBER, by MARC HARSHMAN Poem Source First Line: A wall of trees has been erected just here Last Line: From what we have called prediction Subject(s): October; Weather WELCOME TO OCTOBER, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, october, let my simple song Last Line: To the mild glories of the loving skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Nature; October WELCOME TO OCTOBER, 1867, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hail and bless thy presence, month most dear Last Line: Canst with soft magic charm life's weary hours. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; October; Seasons; Fall WIVES OF OCTOBER, by MEIR WIESELTIER Poem Source First Line: The town sinks under the weight of its own Last Line: Until the empty screen after midnight %lights their contracted thighs Subject(s): October; Towns WORK TIME AND SLEEP TIME, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Daytime is the time for light Last Line: For god then puts the sun's light out. Subject(s): Night; October; Sleep; Bedtime |
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