Today’s Poem of the Day, “Song in the Key of Autumn,” published in the Century in 1920, exhibits the early twentieth century’s fluid relationship with traditional rhyme and meter. As its title ...

I love the autumn — I love it so much, in fact, that I wrote a poem in tribute. I am not a poet, so I offer my apology to any who may be offended by violation of meter and rhyme. Happy autumnal ...

In “Poem in Autumn,” she seizes just that: fall’s fleeting turning point between a memory of warmth and the cold’s inevitable creep. In that suspended instance, she sees the leaves ...

Beauty stiffened, staring up at the sky! Oh, Autumn! Autumn! — What is the Spring to me? With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the ...