AUTUMN FIRES
R.L.Stevenson

Delicious Autumn!
My very soul is wedded to it.
Eliot

The one red leaf, the last of its clan,
That dances as often as dance it can,
Hanging so light, and hanging so high,
On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
Coleridge

O, it sets my heart a clickin'
like the tickin' of a clock,
When the frost is on the punkin
and the fodder's in the shock.
Riley

My heart knows what the wild goose knows
And I must go where the wild goose goes
Wild goose, brother goose, which is best
A wanderin' foot or a heart at rest?
Ford

O Autumn, laden with fruit, and
stained with the blood of the grape
Blake

The full moon associated with the fall equinox is known as the Wine Moon.
This is the time of year when grapes are harvested and the process of making wine begins.

American wine drinkers
consume more wine
on Thanksgiving than any other day of the year.
Poor Richard's Almanac

My sorrow, when she's here with me,
thinks these dark days of autumn rain
are beautiful as days can be;
she loves the bare, the withered tree;
she walks the sodden pasture lane.
Frost

Now Autumns's fire burns slowly along the woods
and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
Allingham

How beautiful the leaves grow old.
How full of light and color are their last days.
Burroughs

Everyone must take time
to sit and watch the leaves turn.
Lawrence

When schools flourish, all flourishes.
Luther

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.
Ford

And all the daughters of the year shall dance!
Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers.
Blake

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
Donne