'It is not every one,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.' #JaneAusten#SenseAndSensibility#BookWormSat Jane Austen
Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves, and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn. #JaneAusten#BookWormSat Jane Austen
'Mine avenue is all a growth of oaks, Some rent by thunder strokes, Some rustling leaves and acorns in the breeze; Fair fall my fertile trees, That rear their goodly heads, and live at ease.' -Christina Rossetti 🎨Tom Scott #BookWormSat
"That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang." ✍️William Shakespeare, Sonnet 73 #BookWormSat
"When Winter's ahead, What can you read in November That you read in April When Winter's dead? I hear the thrush, and I see Him alone at the end of the lane Near the bare poplar's tip, Singing continuously." ✍️Edward Thomas, The Thrush #BookWormSat 🐦⬛Wood Thrush
‘At no other time does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth…bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet…Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost.' ~ Rainer Maria Rilke for #BookWormSat 🍂 🖼️ Franklin Carmichael
#BookWormSat "Every event was measured by the emotions of the mind, not by its actual existence, for it had none. But the trees were gorgeous in their autumnal leafiness - the warm odours of flower and herb came sweet upon the sense ..." Elizabeth Gaskell - North & South
#BookWormSat This poem by A E Houseman always feels autumnal to me ...
"Si sta come d’autunno sugli alberi le foglie." ✍️Guiseppe Ungheretti la poesia, "Soldati" (1918) 📷Michael St Maur Sheil #BookWormSat (Western Front Photography)-Mary Evans
‘Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.’ ~ Albert Camus for #BookWormSat’s foray into Autumn. 🖼️ Ellen Robbins
