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Autumn Leaves

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About This Book

A compact poetry collection gathers short lyrical and didactic pieces that reflect on mortality, memory, love, duty, and spiritual consolation, often using nature and seasonal imagery to frame moral and emotional insights. Many poems shift between wistful reverie and exhortation, imagining dreamlike flights, harvest metaphors about deeds and consequences, prayers, meditations on motherhood and friendship, and speculative lines about reincarnation and the afterlife. The work mixes tender sentiment, moral counsel, and pastoral description across brief, accessible poems that alternate consolation with sober reminders of life's hardships.

Transcriber Notes

In a few cases, obvious errors in punctuation have been fixed.

In the table of contents, “Our Virtues Are Carved Upon One Tombstones” changed to “Our Virtues Are Carved Upon Our Tombstones”. “Can’st Tell Me” changed to “Canst Tell Me”. “To A Friend On Her Birthday” changed to “To A Friend On Her Birth-day” “Yesterday changed to Yesterdays”

Page 32: A missing quote was added after “Are governed by His will.”

Page 54: A missing quote was added before “A monarch I will”

Page 60: “Eor her I’d gladly die” changed to “For her I’d gladly die”

Page 67: “They then receeded from the shore.” changed to “They then receded from the shore.”

Page 162: “Sharper than a sepent’s tooth is,” changed to “Sharper than a serpent’s tooth is,”

Page 201: In tears of grief the original version had the f printed upside down

Page 207: “LIFF IS NOTHING WITHOUT LOVE.” changed to “LIFE IS NOTHING WITHOUT LOVE.”

Page 217: “Dealh is surcease” changed to “Death is surcease”. “thy erosses bear” changed to “thy crosses bear”

Page 230: “These Antumn Leaves” changed to “These Autumn Leaves”