September songs

"The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows

itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many."

-  Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Crown'd with the sickle, and the sheaten sheaf,

While Autumn, nodding o'er the yellow plain,

Comes jovial on."

-  James Thomson, Autumn, 1730

"Under the harvest moon,  
When the soft silver  
Drips shimmering  
Over the garden nights,  
Death, the gray mocker,  
Comes and whispers to you  
As a beautiful friend  
Who remembers." 
-  Carl Sandburg, Under the Harvest Moon