...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...And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn; Hedge crickets sing; and now with treble soft The redbreast whistles from a garden croft; And gathering...

...seasons and the consequence of continual "new heroism" in the evolving conception of human kindness. Where are the songs of spring? Ay, where are they?...garden-croft; And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. (23-33) In the last stanza that he will write to the occasion of autumn, Keats conceives of its ripe...

...metonym/metaphor of nonbeing. The third stanza introduces this dimension immediately with an ubi sunt theme: Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?...garden-croft; And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. (II. 23-33) Imaginary Mirroring and Unity in the Landscape The impact of this stanza on readers' Imaginary...

...Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, — 25 While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And...aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; 30 And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn; Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft...

...sounds that, unlike Baillie's "Summer Day," have now been rigorously and hierarchically orchestrated: Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among...garden-croft; And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. (Keats 1978, 477) Keats's gnats, completely subject to external forces (the wind that moves them about...

...spring; moving, in effect, through almost the whole calendar in its appreciation of the riches of autumn. Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among...from hilly bourn; Hedge-crickets sing; and now with a treble soft The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft; And gathering swallows twitter in the skies....

...so much in my Sunday's walk that I composed upon it.' Seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness! .... Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?...or dies; And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourne; Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft The red breast whistles from a garden-croft,...

...stubble-plains with rosy hue; Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river swallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or...garden-croft; And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. COMPOSED 1819, PUBLISHED 1820. 'To Autumn" has been anthologized more often than any other poem in...

...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...garden-croft; And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. At every turn, 'To Autumn' seems easily to balance forces of life and death, and to combine a sense...

...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...garden-croft; And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. If \ve attempt to provide a preliminary description of the poem by isolating its substance, by the...