I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

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About Thomas Hood

Portrait of Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood (23 May 1799 – 3 May 1845) was an English poet, author and humorist, best known for poems such as "The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Shirt". Hood wrote regularly for The London Magazine, Athenaeum, and Punch. He later published a magazine largely consisting of...

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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

—B. C. Forbes

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Autumn's the mellow time.

—William Allingham

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That time of year thou may'st 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.

Fiery colors begin their yearly conquest of the hills, propelled by the autumn winds. Fall is the artist.

—William Shakespeare

In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November.

—Rose G. Kingsley

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