September
The golden-rod is yellow;
The corn is turning brown;
The trees in apple orchards
With fruit are bending down.
The gentian’s bluest fringes
Are curling in the sun;
In dusty pods the milkweed
Its hidden silk has spun.
The sedges flaunt their harvest,
In every meadow nook;
And asters by the brook-side
Make asters in the brook.
From dewy lanes at morning
The grapes’ sweet odors rise;
At noon the roads all flutter
With yellow butterflies.
By all these lovely tokens
September days are here,
With Summer’s best of weather,
And Autumn’s best of cheer.
But none of all this beauty
Which floods the earth and air,
Is unto me the secret
Which makes September fair.
’Tis a thing which I remember;
To name it thrills me yet:
One day of one September
I never can forget.
by Helen Hunt Jackson: as published in Lida Brown McMurry and Agnes Spofford Cook, editors: “Songs of the Tree-Top and Meadow” (1899), page 11
Helen Hunt Jackson was born as Helen Maria Fiske on 15 October 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America. She became a writer and a poet. Helen Hunt Jackson passed on at 54 years of age on 12 August 1885 in San Francisco, California, United States of America.
The golden-rod is yellow;
The corn is turning brown;
The trees in apple orchards
With fruit are bending down.
The gentian’s bluest fringes
Are curling in the sun;
In dusty pods the milkweed
Its hidden silk has spun.
The sedges flaunt their harvest,
In every meadow nook;
And asters by the brook-side
Make asters in the brook.
From dewy lanes at morning
The grapes’ sweet odors rise;
At noon the roads all flutter
With yellow butterflies.
By all these lovely tokens
September days are here,
With Summer’s best of weather,
And Autumn’s best of cheer.
But none of all this beauty
Which floods the earth and air,
Is unto me the secret
Which makes September fair.
’Tis a thing which I remember;
To name it thrills me yet:
One day of one September
I never can forget.
by Helen Hunt Jackson: as published in Lida Brown McMurry and Agnes Spofford Cook, editors: “Songs of the Tree-Top and Meadow” (1899), page 11
Helen Hunt Jackson was born as Helen Maria Fiske on 15 October 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America. She became a writer and a poet. Helen Hunt Jackson passed on at 54 years of age on 12 August 1885 in San Francisco, California, United States of America.
