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Poems Of John Keats: Grasshopper And Cricket, On The

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Keats, John

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Grasshopper And Cricket, On The

The poetry of earth is never dead; When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new - mown mead; That is the grasshopper's - he takes the lead In summer luxury, - he has never done With his delights, for when tired out with fun He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. The poetry of earth is ceasing never: On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills The cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever, And seems to one in ...

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