
A tender, lyrical collection emerges from the ashes of a lost manuscript, offering readers a series of meditations that weave nature’s rhythms with the inner currents of the human heart. The poet’s voice, shaped by personal loss and quiet perseverance, invites listeners to wander through verses that echo the quiet fall of leaves, the hush of winter, and the hopeful promise of spring’s rebirth. Each poem feels like a gentle conversation with the self, urging contemplation of purpose, love, and the fleeting beauty of everyday moments.
The central motif of autumn leaves serves as a powerful metaphor for life’s cycles—brief brilliance followed by surrender, then renewal. Through vivid imagery and heartfelt inquiry, the work explores grief, gratitude, and the resilience that arises when we confront our own impermanence. Listeners will find solace in the invitation to “write” their own stories, discovering that even in decay there is a quiet seed of new life waiting to be nurtured.
Language
en
Duration
~2 hours (124K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
United States: Press of Bruce Brough, 1908.
Credits
Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
2022-02-18
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects
b. 1843
A little-known American poet whose surviving work carries a reflective, spiritual tone, she wrote verse about love, loss, nature, and the passing of time. Her best-known collection, Autumn Leaves, has an especially moving backstory: she rebuilt it after the original manuscript was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco fire.
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