[New-Poetry] To Autumn

[Anny Ballardini]

I gan glean da garage if you gan glean my gar

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 7:53 PM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

>
> Can you come over and glean my garage?
> Finnegan
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Cervantes <cervantes.james at gmail.com>
> Sent: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 1:40 pm
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] To Autumn
>
>  I hired a gleaning lady.
> - Jim
>
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:22 AM, David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu> wrote:
>
>> Here's a factoid courtesy of Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac.  Today
>> is the very date on which Keats wrote "To Autumn."  Everyone should go
>> outdoors immediately and do some gleaning.
>>
>>  *TO AUTUMN*
>>
>>                           1.
>> SEASON 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'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.
>>
>>                          2.
>> 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 twined flowers:
>> And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
>>   Steady thy laden head across a brook;
>>   Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
>>     Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.
>>
>>                          3.
>> Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, 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 loud bleat from hilly bourn;
>>   Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
>>   The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
>>               And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
>>
>> Keats, John. 1884. *Poetical Works*.
>>
>>
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