Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
\nClose bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
\nConspiring with him how to load and bless
\nWith fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
\nTo bend with apples the moss\u2019d cottage-trees,
\nAnd fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
\nTo swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
\nWith a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
\nAnd still more, later flowers for the bees,
\nUntil they think warm days will never cease,
\nFor summer has o\u2019er-brimm\u2019d their clammy cells.<\/p>\n
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
\nSometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
\nThee sitting careless on a granary floor,
\nThy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
\nOr on a half-reap\u2019d furrow sound asleep,
\nDrows\u2019d with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
\nSpares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
\nAnd sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
\nSteady thy laden head across a brook;
\nOr by a cyder-press, with patient look,
\nThou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.<\/p>\n
Where are the songs of spring? Ay, Where are they?
\nThink not of them, thou hast thy music too,\u2014
\nWhile barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
\nAnd touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
\nThen in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
\nAmong the river sallows, borne aloft
\nOr sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
\nAnd full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
\nHedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
\nThe red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
\nAnd gathering swallows twitter in the skies.<\/p>\n
31 October 1795 \u2013 23 February 1821<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cSeason of mists and mellow fruitfulness\u201d Last year about this time, one of the list\u2019s readers responded to an all-time favorite autumn poem from Gerard Manley Hopkins \u2013 \u2013 who pretty regularly knocks me flat with wonder. The email contained … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2017\/10\/John-Keats.jpg\")
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