sextonde november

 

 Sir William George Armstrong (1810–1900), 1st Baron Armstrong of Cragside, in the Inglenook at Cragside 

Henry Hetherington Emmerson (1831–1895)

 “How well I know what I mean to do

When the long dark Autumn evenings come,

And where, my soul, is thy pleasant hue?

With the music of all thy voices, dumb

In life’s November too!

I shall be found by the fire, suppose,

O’er a great wise book as beseemeth age,

While the shutters flap as the cross-wind blows,

And I turn the page, and I turn the page,

Not verse now, only prose!”        

          Robert Browning