O golden month! How high thy gold is heaped!
The yellow birch-leaves shine like bright coins strung
On wands; the chestnut's yellow pennons tongue
To every wind its harvest challenge. Steeped
In yellow, still lie fields where wheat was reaped;
And yellow still the corn sheaves, stacked among
The yellow gourds, which from the earth have wrung
Her utmost gold. To highest boughs have leaped
The purple grape,--last thing to ripen, late
By very reason of its precious cost.
O Heart, remember, vintages are lost
If grapes do not for freezing night-dews wait.
Think, while thou sunnest thyself in Joy's estate,
Mayhap thou canst not ripen without frost!
A Calendar Of Sonnets: September
Helen Hunt Jackson
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Poem topics: heart, joy, lost, night, purple, remember, wind, earth, tongue, wait, frost, bright, precious, reason, high, shine, golden, challenge, gold, yellow, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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