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^{translated from the German by}^{Babette Deutsch}^and^{Avrahm Yarmolinsky}

My springtime, a sobbing hunger,
   my summer, a hot struggle—
                      what
          will my autumn be?

A tardy golden sheaf?

a lake of mist?

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on April 25, 2025, by the Academy of American Poets.

Title	Author	Date
Midsummer	William Cullen Bryant	07/31/2011
Summer	Amy Lowell	07/30/2011
more shadow	Priscilla Becker	07/29/2011
I Too Was Loved by Daphne	Judith Baumel	07/28/2011
Purgatorio	Peter Streckfus	07/27/2011
Perceiving is the same as receiving and it is the same as responding.	Brian Teare	07/26/2011
Again a Solstice	Jennifer Chang	07/25/2011
In the Mountains on a Summer Day	Li Bai	07/24/2011
Tempest, Act V, Scene I [Where the bee sucks, there suck I]	William Shakespeare	07/23/2011
Summer Images	John Clare	07/23/2011