| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1120. Her Picture |
| | | By Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz |
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| AUTUMN was cold in Plymouth town; | |
| The wind ran round the shore, | |
| Now softly passing up and down, | |
| Now wild and fierce and fleet, | |
| Wavering overhead, | 5 |
| Moaning in the narrow street | |
| As one beside the dead. | |
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| The leaves of wrinkled gold and brown | |
| Fluttered here and there, | |
| But not quite heedless where; | 10 |
| For as in hood and sad-hued gown | |
| The Rose of Plymouth took the air, | |
| They whirled, and whirled, and fell to rest | |
| Upon her gentle breast, | |
| Then on the happy earth her foot had pressed. | 15 |
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| Autumn is wild in Plymouth town, | |
| Barren and bleak and cold, | |
| And still the dead leaves flutter down | |
| As the years grow old. | |
| And still—forever gravely fair— | 20 |
| Beneath their fitful whirl, | |
| New England’s sweetest girl, | |
| Rose Standish, takes the air. | |
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