| Higginson and Bigelow, comps. American Sonnets. 1891. | | | | October | | By William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
| | | AY, thou art welcome, heaven’s delicious breath! | |
| When woods begin to wear the crimson leaf, | |
| And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, | |
| And the year smiles as it draws near its death. | |
| Wind of the sunny south! oh, still delay | 5 |
| In the gay woods and in the golden air, | |
| Like to a good old age released from care, | |
| Journeying, in long serenity, away. | |
| In such a bright, late quiet, would that I | |
| Might wear out life like thee, ’mid bowers and brooks, | 10 |
| And, dearer yet, the sunshine of kind looks, | |
| And music of kind voices ever nigh; | |
| And when my last sand twinkled in the glass, | |
| Pass silently from men, as thou dost pass. | | | | |
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