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Autumn — Emily Dickinson Quotes by Emily Dickinson: Context & Meanings

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Poem in the 1890 First Series

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Nuts, berries, roses, changing mornings, close seasonal observation and the incremental arrival of autumn.

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“The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown; The berry's cheek is plumper, The rose is out of town.”

Small changes in morning, nuts, berries and roses make the season legible through close observation rather than through an abstract announcement that autumn has arrived.

Source note: “Autumn,” Poems: First Series (1890), Project Gutenberg #12242. The title and punctuation follow the represented early printed edition rather than a modern manuscript-based Dickinson edition.