To Autumn
by John Keats J.
1
Season of mists and mellow1 fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun,
Conspiring2 with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the mossd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell3 the gourd4, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel5; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has oer-brimmd 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 sort-lifted by the winnowing6 wind;
Or on a half-reapd furrow7 sound asleep,
Dowsd with the fume8 of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers.
And sometimes like a gleaner9 thou dost keep
Steady thy laden10 head across a brook11;
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 rosy12 hue13;
Then in a waiful choir14 the small gnats15 mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat16 from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles form a garden-croft;
And gathering17 swallows twitter in the skies.
作者介绍： 济慈，英国19世纪浪漫主义诗人。1816年发表处女作《哦，孤独》，1818年长诗《安狄米恩》出版，遭到著名诗人拜伦和雪莱的看重与鼓励。他写出了很多脍炙人口的名篇，如长诗《伊莎贝拉》和抒情诗《希腊古瓮颂》、《夜莺颂》、《秋颂》等，奠定了他在英国文学史上的崇高地位。
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