To Autumn
John Keats
1795 to 1821
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Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend ______ the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load ______ bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
______ fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
______ swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
______ a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm ______ will never cease,
For summer has o'er-brimm'd their ______ cells.
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting ______ on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by ______ 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 twined flowers:
______ sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady ______ laden head across a brook;
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings ______ by hours.
Where are the songs of spring? Ay, ______ are they?
Think not of them, thou hast ______ music too,—
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then ______ a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among ______ river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the ______ wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat ______ hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble ______
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And ______ swallows twitter in the skies.