The following poems about the autumn season are appropriate for young people.
“Besides the Autumn poets sing (131)” by Emily Dickinson
Besides the Autumn poets sing …
“After Apple-Picking” by Robert Frost
My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree …
“Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost
Nature’s first green is gold …
“October” by Robert Frost
O hushed October morning mild ...
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“Natural History” by Sam Hamill
Late afternoon, autumn equinox ...
“Autumn Ritual with Hate Turned Sideways” by Brenda Hillman
—i pull the hate …
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“Fall” by Edward Hirsch
Fall, falling, fallen. That’s the way the season…
“October” by Helen Hunt Jackson
Bending above the spicy woods which blaze …
“Dead Leaves” by Georgia Douglas Johnson
The breaking dead leaves ’neath my feat …
“Blackberry Eating” by Galway Kinnell
I love to go out in late September …
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“Hoar-Frost” by Amy Lowell
In the cloud-grey mornings …
“The Blower of Leaves” by January Gill O’Neil
Always there is sky after sky waiting to fall ...
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“O Autumn, Autumn!” by Effie Lee Newsome
O Autumn, Autumn! O pensive light …
“Autumn” by Alexander Posey
In the dreamy silence ...
“The Plain Sense of Things” by Wallace Stevens
After the leaves have fallen, we return …
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“Home” by Bruce Weigl
I didn’t know I was grateful …
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“Willow Poem” by William Carlos Williams
It is a willow when summer is over ...
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From “The Kitten and Falling Leaves” by William Wordsworth
See the kitten on the wall …
“The Wild Swans at Coole” by W. B. Yeats
The trees are in their autumn beauty …
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