Fifty Shades of October

The tenth month of the Gregorian calendar in now upon us and the land prepares to give us more of its colorful coverings as a landscape of thrilling promise and gorgeous colour provides a sumptuous feast as only nature can.Autumn or Fall, the final crescendo of the natural landscape whirls and cascades herself before our eyes. Across fifty poems our classic poets including Christina Georgina Rossetti, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Thomas Hardy & Dante Gabriel Rossetti find verse and tender words to match the occasion. Their descriptions of nature's ever-evolving landscape and humanity's ever-changing lives emblazon the page with the lively ink that shapes us all.1 - Fifty Shades of October - An Introduction2 - October by Paul Laurence Dunbar3 - October by Lucy Hamilton Hooper4 - October Musings 1866 by Janet Hamilton5 - October by John Jay Chapman6 - October's Bright Blue Weather by Helen Hunt Jackson7 - October by George Arnold8 - An Ode, Written October 1819 Before the Spaniards Had Recovered Their Liberty by Shelley9 - Song of the Democratic Review of it's Birthday, October the 1st 1857 by William Ross Wallace10 - Hymm for the Celebration at the Laying of the Cornerstone of Harvard Memorial Hall, Cambridge, October the 6th 1870 by Oliver Wendell Holmes11 - In Westminster Abbey, October 12th 1892 by John Todhunter12 - Anticipation, October 1803 by William Wordsworth13 - Autumn, 1914 by Mary Webb14 - Rain by Edward Thomas15 - Autumn Within by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow16 - Embarcation (Southampton Docks, October 1899) by Thomas Hardy17 - In Autumn by Alice Meynell18 - The Falling of Leaves by W B Yeats19 - The Autumn by Elizabeth Barrett Browning20 - An October Evening by William Wilfred Campbell21 - Mist in the Valley by Edna St Vincent Millay22 - All Day It Has Rained by Alun Lewis23 - Bitter Rain by Wu Zao24 - The Rain and the Wind by William Ernest Henley25 - Rain Music by Joseph Semon Cotter26 - North Wind in October by Robert Seymour Bridges27 - October by William Cullen Bryant28 - An October Garden by Christina Georgina Rossetti29 - Autumn in the Garden by Fredegond Shove30 - The Wild Swans at Coole by W B Yeats31 - Through October Fields by James Edwin Campbell32 - October on the Sheep Range by Arthur Chapman33 - Written At Lovere, October 1736 by Mary Wortley Montagu34 - Give Me October's Meditative Haze by Alfred Austin35 - The Falling Leaves by Margaret Postgate Cole36 - On the 10th October by Phillip Henry Savage37 - The Kitten and the Falling Leaves by William Wordsworth38 - Fall Leaves Fall by Emily Bronte39 - Turn Me to My Yellow Leaves by William Stanley Braithwaite40 - On the Road to Waterloo, the 17th October (En Vigilante, 2 Hours) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti41 - October 1915 by Dora Sigerson Shorter42 - October by John Payne43 - An October Sunset by Archibald Lampman44 - Autumn Fires by Robert Louis Stevenson45 - October 21st, 1905 by George Meredith46 - The National Prayer, October 1840 by Henry Alford47 - Last Week in October by Thomas Hardy48 - Lines Written October 23rd, 1836, A Few Hours After the Birth of My First Child by Henry Alford49 - On St Chrispins Day, October 25th, 1763 by James Wilson Claudero50 - From October - On Nearing Halloween (Extract) by James Grahame51 - A Witches Chant (An Extract) by James Hogg