By all these lovely tokens September days are here, with summer's best of weather and autumn's best of cheer. Helen Hunt Jackson

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. P. D. James

Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves! Humbert Wolfe

O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing. Percy Bysshe Shelley

The year has turned its circle, the seasons come and go. The harvest all is gathered in and chilly north winds blow. Orchards have shared their treasures, the fields, their yellow grain, so open wide the doorway -- Thanksgiving comes again! Anon

Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure. Thomas Wolfe

There is music in the meadows, in the air -- autumn is here; skies are gray, but hearts are mellow. William Stanley Braithwaite