to autumn

• season of mist and mellow fruitfulness
• to swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells/ with a sweet kernel
• hedge crickets sing, and now with treble soft/ the redbreast whistles
• from a garden croft/ and gathering swallows twitter in the skies
• thee sitting careless on a granary floor
• thou watches the last oozings hours by hours
• while barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day
• where are the songs of spring
• the small gnats mourn
• context

  was a romantic poet, wrote a lot about nature and the natural world, died at 25, worried he would leave no lasting impression on the world - why he wrote this poem