Autumn Leaves

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Autumn Leaves

by Ardelia Maria Cotton Barton

EN·~2 hours

Chapters

Description

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.

Details

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.

About the author

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Ardelia Maria Cotton Barton

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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