Effie Lee Newsome (Mary Effie Lee), "O Autumn, Autumn!" (1918)
Cold haunted sky, green-haunted ground!
When, wan, the dead leaves flutter by
Deserted realms of butterfly!
When robins band themselves together
To seek the soul of sun-steeped weather;
And all of summer's largesse goes
For lands of olive and the rose!
Published in The Crisis, October 1918