“O Wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being,
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
Pestilence-stricken multitudes.”

Ode to the West Wind, Stanza 1.
Percy Bysshe Shelley [1792-1822].

Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett.
Published by Little, Brown and Company. 1955. Page 464.