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October 20, 2016

Longings for Home by Walt Whitman

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October 20, 2016

Dusk in Autumn by Sara Teasdale

The moon is like a scimitar, A little silver scimitar, A-drifting down the sky. And near beside it is a star, A timid twinkling golden star, That watc…
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October 20, 2016

A Dream of Autumn by James Whitcomb Riley

        Mellow hazes, lowly trailing         Over wood and meadow, veiling   &nb…
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October 20, 2016

The Forgotten Grave by Emily Dickinson

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October 20, 2016

My November Guest by Robert Frost

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 wal…
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October 20, 2016

A Ghost and a Dream by Madison Julius Cawein

        Rain will fall on the fading flowers,     Winds will blow through the dripping tree,   &nbsp…
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October 20, 2016

Thanksgiving by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

    We walk on starry fields of white         And do not see the daisies;   &nbs…
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October 20, 2016

A Song of Harvest by John Greenleaf Whittier

       This day, two hundred years ago,     The wild grape by the river's side,     And ta…
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October 20, 2016

Thanksgiving by Kate Seymour Maclean

    The Autumn hills are golden at the top,         And rounded as a poet's silver rhyme;  &nbs…
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