And flowers of June together,Ye cannot rival for one hour
October's bright blue weather.
And flowers of June together,October's bright blue weather.
When loud the bumblebee makes haste,
Belated, thriftless vagrant,
And Golden Rod is dying fast,
And lanes with grapes are fragrant;
When Gentians roll their fringes tight,
To save them for the morning,
And chestnuts fall from satin burrs
Without a sound of warning.
When on the ground red apples lie
In piles like jewels shining,
And redder still on old stone walls
Are leaves of woodbine twining;
When all the lovely wayside things
Their white-winged seeds are sowing,
And in the fields, still green and fair,
Late aftermaths are growing;
When springs run low, and on the brooks,
In idle golden freighting,
Bright leaves sink noiseless in the hush
Of woods, for winter waiting;
When comrades seek sweet country haunts,
By twos and twos together,
And count like misers, hour by hour,
October's bright blue weather.
O suns and skies and flowers of June,
Count all your boasts together,
Love loveth best of all the year
October's bright blue weather.
by Helen Hunt Jackson
Winter, 2001
"Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost
Summer, 2001
"Memory" by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Winter, 2000
"The Heart of the Tree" by Henry Cuyler Bunner
Summer, 2000
"Red Geraniums" by Martha Haskell Clark
Spring, 2000
"Immortality" by Joseph Jefferson
Winter, 1999
"Everest" by Eunice Tietjens
Fall, 1999
"Tree at my Window" by Robert Frost
Summer, 1999
"Climb The Mountains" by John Muir
Spring, 1999
"The Rose Still Grows Beyond the Wall" by A.L. Frink
Winter, 1998
"The Runaway" by Robert Frost
Fall, 1998
"Hope" by Emily Dickinson
Summer, 1998
"A Patch of Roses" by Gail Lemnah Barnett
Spring, 1998
"Song of the River" by William Randolph Hearst
January, 1998
"Birches" by Robert Frost
November and December, 1997
"One Last Rose" by Gail Lemnah Barnett
October, 1997
"Far From the Madding Crowd" by Nixon Waterman
September, 1997
"Kiss From a Rose" by Seal, from the Album: "Seal"
August, 1997
"Summer Rose Saga" by Gail Lemnah Barnett
July, 1997
"A Bird Came Down the Walk" by Emily Dickinson
June, 1997
"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
May, 1997
"The Path That Leads to Nowhere" by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
April, 1997
"The Firefly" by Jane Stuart
March, 1997
"Plant a Tree" by Lucy Larcom
February, 1997
"The Daffodils" by William Wordsworth
January, 1997
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost
December, 1996
"Wintering Rosarians" by Gail Lemnah Barnett
November, 1996
"'Tis the Last Rose of Summer" by Thomas Moore
October, 1996
"Autumn Chant" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
September, 1996
"The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop
August, 1996
"Departmental" by Robert Frost
July, 1996
"City Flies" by Alan Van Dine
June, 1996
"My Neighbor's Roses" by A.L. Gruber