September
Lo! a ripe sheaf of many golden days
Gleaned by the year in autumn’s harvest ways,
With here and there, blood-tinted as an ember,
Some crimson poppy of a late delight
Atoning in its splendor for the flight
Of summer blooms and joys –
This is September.
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Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)
from The Watchman, and other poems, 1916
[Poem is in the public domain in Canada, the United States, and the European Union]
Lucy Maud Montgomery biography
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