Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;Conspiring with him how to load and blessWith 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 shellsWith 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'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.
John Keats · Poems Published in 1820
Nature & seasons
“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,”
- Author
- John Keats
- Work
- Poems Published in 1820
- Year
- 1820
- Chapter / part
- To Autumn, stanza 1
- Length
- 85 words
- Source
- Project Gutenberg eBook #23684
Public domain. This passage is in the public domain. John Keats died in 1821, more than 70 years ago, and the work was first published in 1820. You can copy, print, read aloud or sell it without asking permission; a credit is kind but not required. The text is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg edition linked here.
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