autumn of life

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Beautiful as a woman is she, A woman whose autumn of life is here, Proud and calm at the end of the year With the grace that now is majesty.

From Eight Harvard Poets by Cummings, E. Estlin

The past, with its dark shadows, sank into oblivion, and to the man who was already approaching the autumn of life sounded joyously the message that every blossom was repeating: Spring is here!

From 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)

Oh, why are we not as lovely in our autumn of life as nature is in hers?

From Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow." by Wren, Jenny

This has been a foretaste of the autumn of life, and it has been very peaceful.

From We Two, a novel by Lyall, Edna

A tall bony woman, in the autumn of life, with sunken eyes and iron-grey hair, rose stiffly from her chair, and saluted the ladies with stern submission as they opened the door.

From The Haunted Hotel by Collins, Wilkie