Robert Louis Stevenson

Autumn Fires

Summary


Autumn Fires is a short poem that follows bonfire smoke as it trails across gardens and up the vale. The speaker watches red flames blaze and gray smoke tower while the last summer flowers fade. Rather than mourning the end of summer, the verses turn to a cheerful song of the seasons. Each one brings something bright, from summer blooms to the glow of the fall fires. Its simple rhymes make it easy to read aloud.

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In the other gardens
And all up the vale,
From the autumn bonfires
See the smoke trail!

Two children watch bonfire smoke drift over the vale in an illustration for Autumn Fires by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Pleasant summer over
And all the summer flowers,
The red fire blazes,
The gray smoke towers.

Sing a song of seasons!
Something bright in all!
Flowers in the summer,
Fires in the fall!

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Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish writer of the Victorian era, famous for Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. This poem appeared in his collection A Child's Garden of Verses, first published in 1885.