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		Poems for Autumn
		Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair] by Jenny Boully

		After Apple-Picking by Robert Frost

		Autumn by T. E. Hulme

		Autumn by Amy Lowell

		Autumn by Richard Garcia

		Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio by James Wright

		Autumn Evening by David Lehman

		Autumn Movement by Carl Sandburg

		Fall by Edward Hirsch

		Home by Bruce Weigl

		Lament of the Middle Man by Jay Parini

		Late Autumn Wasp by James Hoch

		Leaves by Lloyd Schwartz

		Mnemosyne by Trumbull Stickney

		November Night by Adelaide Crapsey

		October by Robert Frost

		Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley

		Spring and Fall by Gerard Manley Hopkins

		That time of year thou mayst in me behold (Sonnet 73) by William Shakespeare

		The Plain Sense of Things by Wallace Stevens

		The Widening Spell of the Leaves by Larry Levis

		The Wild Swans at Coole by W. B. Yeats

		To Autumn by John Keats, read by Stanley Plumly

		To Autumn by William Blake

		Under the Harvest Moon by Carl Sandburg

		When Autumn Came by Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Autumn Grasses
by Margaret Gibson

In fields of bush clover and hay-scent grass the autumn moon takes refuge The cricket's song is gold Zeshin's loneliness taught him this Who is coming? What will come to pass, and pass? Neither bruise nor sweetness nor cool air not-knowing knows the way And the moon? Who among us does not wander, and flare and bow to the ground? Who does not savor, and stand open if only in secret taking heart in the ripening of the moon? (Shibata Zeshin, Autumn Grasses, two-panel screen)

From Autumn Grasses by Margaret Gibson. Copyright © 2003 by Margaret Gibson. Reproduced with permission of Louisiana State University Press. All rights reserved.