Some of us though, are moving into autumn now and won't be disappointed with the songs that have been prompted by 'this season of mists and mellow fruitfulness'. The one that immediately comes to mind is Fauré's superb setting of Armand Silvestre's poem 'Automne'.

Autumn with your misty skies and desolate horizons, fast fading sunsets and pale dawns.
I watch your melancholy days flow past like the waters of a mountain stream.

Borne on wings of regret - that if only we could have our time again - my spirits, day-dreaming, are wafted over the enchanted hillsides where long ago my youth smiled brightly.

In the clear sunlight of conquering memory, I see the undone bouquet of roses gathered up, flowering again and in my eyes, rise the tears that my heart of twenty years had forgotten.

Slower version now available.

Listen to Automne by Gabriel Fauré