'On its hinge'

This 1905 print by Maxfield Parrish illustrated John Keats's poem “Autumn’’. Parrish spent much of his life in Plainfield, N.H., near the site of the famous art colony in Cornish, N.H.

“An agitation of the air,

A perturbation of the light

Admonished me the unloved year

Would turn on its hinge that night.’’

— From “End of Summer,’’ by Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006). The Worcester native was a celebrated poet and teacher who for much of his later life moved back and forth between homes in New York City and Provincetown. The autumn equinox comes on Tuesday, Sept. 22, this year.