Fall Quote by Alice Cary

“And at last, in its curved and imperceptible fall, the sun sank low, and from glowing white changed to a dull red without rays…

— Joseph Conrad

“O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?”

— Wilfred Owen

And the day climbs down from its blue loft-bed on a slanting ladder of sunbeams, pauses a moment between the trees, airy-light, young.

— Hans Børli

The sun does what it does because the earth tilts.

— Vijay Seshadri

Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“The dusk here does not arrive on the shoulders of golden sunsets any more, but on the heels of long, encroaching shadows of untraceable…

— Mirza Waheed

Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.

— Georg Trakl

Every Winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps,…

— Charles Kingsley

...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.

— Ray Bradbury

Nightfall. “What a strange word. ‘Night’ I get. But ‘fall’ is a gentle word. Autumn leaves fall, swirling with languid grace To carpet the…

— Karen Marie Moning

The sun fades like the spreading Of a peacock's tail, as though twilight Might be read as a warning to those desperate For easy…

— John Ashbery

May never glorious sun reflex his beams Upon the country where you make abode! But darkness and the gloomy shade of death Environ you…

— William Shakespeare