In heaven it is always autumn.
JOHN DONNE
JOHN DONNE
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho I think autumn can teach us a lot about love. About how muh beauty can be hidden in layers of change.
Ana SoulfulAna Soulful That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy Autumn sheds the leaves like tear drops.
Marie-Kristin HofmannMarie-Kristin Hofmann Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
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