I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence, for no lonely bird would sing Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn, Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn; --Shaking his languid locks all dewy bright With tangled gossamer that fell by night, Pearling his coronet of golden corn. Thomas Hood
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In the poem "Autumn" by William Wordsworth, he describes a scene in Autumn. In the poem, he describes a beautiful misty morn when the forest is quiet and the leaves are all dewy hot. He says that there was no lonely bird to sing of love, nor of any kind of prey, nor any hedge or thorn. He said that he had seen old Autumn standing like silence, listening to silence for no bird would sing of love into his hollow ear from woods forlorn nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn; but shaking his languid locks all dewy bright with tangled gossamer that fell by night pearling his coronet of golden corn. He also had seen all this with his eyes and had seen it with the eye of his heart.

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