'Ode to Autumn' (poem) written by John Keats

I have included this poem as Deborah and I enjoyed the autumnal season (Fall in the USA), with its vibrant colours, the excuse to eat stews and soups, to snuggle down - to celebrate God who created all that we see and do not see


Seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness

Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;

Conspiring with him how to load and bless

With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;

To bend with apples the moss'd cottage trees,

And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;

To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells

With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,

And still more, later flowers for the bees,

Until they think warm days will never cease;

For Summer has o'erbrimm'd  their clammy cells.


Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?

Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find

Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,

Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;

Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,

Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook

Spares the next swath and all its twinned flowers;

And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep 

Steady thy laden head across a brook;

Or by a cider press, with patient look,

Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours.


Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, where are they?

Think not of them - thou hast thy music too,

While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day

And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;

Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn

Among the river sallows, borne aloft

Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;

And full-grown lambs bleat from hilly bourn;

Hedge crickets sing, and now with treble soft

The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft.

And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.



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