Saturday Poetry Corner: September

Lo! a ripe sheaf of many golden days

Gleaned by the year in autumn's harvest ways,

With here and there, blood-tinted as an ember,

Some crimson poppy of late delight

Atoning in its splendor for the flight

Of summer blooms and joys.

This is September. 

Poppies In The Wheat Field
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"September"
(1910)
Lucy Maud Montgomery 
(1874-1942)
Canadian writer and poetess
Author of the "Anne of Green Gables" series