The falling leaves drift by the window
The autumn leaves of red and gold
I see your lips, the summer kisses
The sun-burned hands I used to hold
Since you went away the days grow long
And soon Ill hear old winters song
But I miss you most of all my darling
When autumn leaves start to fall
- Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
The Autumn Leaves
The leaves had a wonderful frolic.
They danced to the wind's loud song.
They whirled, and they floated, and scampered.
They circled and flew along.
The moon saw the little leaves dancing.
Each looked like a small brown bird.
The man in the moon smiled and listened,
And this is the song he heard.
The North Wind is calling, is calling,
And we must whirl round and round,
And then, when our dancing is ended,
We'll make a warm quilt for the ground.
- Unknown
Autumn Leaves
The autumn leaves are falling like rain.
Although my neighbors are all barbarians,
And you, you are a thousand miles away,
There are always two cups at my table.
- by T'ang Dynasty poem
In Autumn
They're coming down in showers,
The leaves all gold and red;
They're covering the little flowers,
And tucking them in bed.
They've spread a fairy carpet
All up and down the street;
And when we skip along to school,
They rustle 'neath our feet.
- by Fannie Montgomery
If winter is slumber and spring is birth,
and summer is life, then autumn rounds out
to be reflection. It's a time of year when
the leaves are down and the harvest is in
and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth
just closed up the drapes on another year
and it's time to reflect on what's come before.
- by Mitchell Burgess
On the motionless branches of some trees,
autumn berries hung like clusters of coral
beads, as in those fabled orchards where
the fruits were jewels.
- Charles Dickens
Spades take up leaves
No better than spoons,
And bags full of leaves
Are light as balloons.
I make a great noise
Of rustling all day
Like rabbit and deer
Running away.
- Robert Frost
falling leaves
hide the path
so quietly
- John Bailey
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