Preface -- Part 1: Change -- Introduction -- from the Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible -- Gathering of poems from the Harlem Renaissance / Esther Popel, Jean Toomer, Isabel Neill, Marjorie Marshall -- from the introduction to Onward and Upward in the Garden / E B White -- Barn Raising from Traveling Mercies / Anne Lamott -- Day's Peak / Abram Van Engen -- Dissolving View / Susan Fenimore Cooper -- Tilt, from My Story as Told by Water / David James Duncan -- Autumn, from Small Creatures and Ordinary Places / Allen M Young -- Part 2: Endings -- Introduction -- from the Book of Ruth in Hebrew Bible -- Gathering of poems and an essay from World War I / Siegfried Sassoon, Edward Thomas, Margaret Postgate Cole, Henry Major Tomlinson -- from Drinking the Rain / Alix Kates Shulman -- Green Fields of the Mind / A Bartlett Giamatti -- from November: Lincoln's Elegy at Gettysburg / Kent Gramm -- From Dry Autumn / Alice Meynell -- from Old Man Brunner Country / Leo Dangel -- Gathering of poems after September 11, 2001/ Meena Alexander and Kimiko Hahn -- Part 3: Work -- Introduction -- from the Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible -- Arrival of Fall, from The Undaunted Garden / Lauren Springer -- from The House by the Sea / May Sarton -- October, from The Rural Life / Verlyn Klinkenborg -- To Autumn / John Keats -- Music One Looks Back On, from Body Traffic / Stephen Dobyns -- from "A Native Hill" / Wendell Berry -- September, from Among Schoolchildren / Tracy Kidder.
Part 4: Harvest -- Introduction -- from the Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible -- from The Apple, from Winter Sunshine / John Burroughs -- Gathering of autumn poems / Robert Frost -- Around the Horn, from The House on Nauset Marsh / Wyman Richardson -- Autumnal Tints / Henry David Thoreau -- from An Almanac for Moderns / Donald Culross Peattie -- from The Showings of Divine Love / Julian of Norwich -- Gathering of prayers and hymns -- Part 5: Thanksgiving -- Introduction -- from the Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible -- from Journall of the English Plantation at Plimoth / William Bradford and Edward Winslow -- from Northwood: A Tale of New England and Traits of American Life / Sarah Josepha Hale -- Three poems / Hahm Dong-Seon -- October, from Great Possessions: An Amish Farmer's Journal / David Kline -- I Am the Clock-Winder, from A Dresser of Sycamore Trees / Garret Keizer -- from "an Autumn Effect / Robert Louis Stevenson -- from Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography / PD James -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Notes -- About SkyLight Paths.
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