" Oh, I know how it is looking out in the garden this golden weather, how the placid hours are slipping by in unchanged peace, how strong...

" That strangely still pause between summer & autumn, greenery and gold, and the heat and the rising wind that is once again readying...

" This joy gives her experience of a genii-life. Buoyant, by green steps, by glad hills, all verdue and light, she reaches a station...

She was blind and insensible to many things, and dimly she knew it; but to all that was light and air, perfume and color, every drop of...

" Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked...

" And I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts: A sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused,...

...but here was the wide world awake and yet only for me, all the fragrance breathed only by me, not a living soul hearing the...

" Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came. If the village had been beautiful at first it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its...

"The summer came to life It burst from gray to fierce blue and gold in the blink of an eye; the air pealed with grasshoppers and...

" O, the solemn woods over which the light and shadow traveled swiftly, as if Heavenly wings were sweeping on benignant errands, through...

" She stared. Such beauty; and she there to see it. Such beauty; and she alive to feel it. Her face was bathed in light. Lovely scents...

" A blackberry branch laid its frail white flowers and blue-green leaves against the sky. Just beyond, a tuft of sweet-fern unfurled...

" There is a place where words are born on silence, a place where the whispers of the heart arise." {Rumi} As long as I can remember, I...

" The rain fell gently, persistently, making a little chuckling and burbling noise in the gutters. Edward, leaning out of the window,...

"The way everything changes. The way everything stays the same. The way those things are bigger than I am, and more than I can hold. More...

" The hush comes with the deepening of autumn; but it comes gradually. ​ Our ears are attuned to it, day by quieter day. ​ But even now...

" It was November - the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind songs in the pines." {L.M....

" Delights are strewn about this world like quiet, inappreciable dew-drops, waiting for the sunshine of our attention to turn them into...

" In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild...

" There is something in the Autumn that is native to my blood ~ Touch of manor, hint of mood and my heart is like a rhyme, with the...