Lo! sweeten'd with the summer light, The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow, Drops in a silent autumn night. All its allotted length of days The flower ripens in its place, Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil, Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
source: Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Tennyson: Selected Poetry”, p.37, Routledge
topic: Summer, Flower, Fall, Summer To Fall, Waxing
Variations: II Green light, from the moon, Pours over the dark blue trees, Green light from the autumn moon Pours on the grass ... Green light falls on the goblin fountain Where hesitant lovers meet and pass. They laugh in the moonlight, touching hands, They move like leaves on the wind ... I remember an autumn night like this, And not so long ago, When other lovers were blown like leaves, Before the coming of snow.
- Conrad Aiken
topic: Moving, Fall, Autumn, Goblin, Dark Blue
This is wine," Ghoolion said solemnly. "Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle. Wine can be a melody in a cut-glass goblet, but it can also be a cacophony in a dirty tumbler, or a rainy autumn night, or a funeral march that scorches your tongue.
- Walter Moers
source: Walter Moers (2009). “The Alchemaster's Apprentice: A Novel”, p.104, The Overlook Press
topic: Summer, Dirty, Wine, Cacophony, Autumn Nights
