National Poetry Day 8 October 2015

That Autumnal nip is definitely in the air this morning so, in honour of National Poetry Day, I thought I'd share a couple of seasonal poems with you.

An October Garden

In my Autumn garden I was fain

To mourn among my scattered roses;

Alas for that last rosebud which uncloses

To Autumn’s languid sun and rain

When all the world is on the wane!

Which has not felt the sweet constraint of June,

Nor heard the nightingale in tune.

Broad-faced asters by my garden walk,

You are but coarse compared with roses:

More choice, more dear that rosebud which uncloses

Faint-scented, pinched, upon its stalk,

That least and last which cold winds balk;

A rose it is though least and last of all,

A rose to me though at the fall.

Christina Rossetti

Autumn Fires

In the other gardens 

And all up the vale, 

From the autumn bonfires 

See the smoke trail! 

Pleasant summer over 

And all the summer flowers, 

The red fire blazes, 

The grey smoke towers. 

Sing a song of seasons! 

Something bright in all! 

Flowers in the summer, 

Fires in the fall! 

Robert Louis Stevenson