"Ode to Autumn" by John Keats

"Ode to Autumn" a poem by John Keats, read by Janet Harris.

Ode to Autumn

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-eaves 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'erbrimmed their clammy cells.

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,
Drowsed 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 cider-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours.

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 redbreast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

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[neonpuss1]

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I was thinking of doing a picture version but your's is way better than I could manage.

You have fitted the images to the text impeccably - and such beautiful scenes - very enjoyable - well done.

[pjsh4]

@neonpuss1 Thank you for your kind comments.

[Caspar33]

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[HerAeolianHarp]

Beautiful and poignant reading of the Keats classic.

[AxisDynide]

One of my favourite poems depicted and read beautifully. Thank you.

[AxisDynide]

One of my favourite poems depicted and read beautifully. Thank you.

[playferfun]

Beautiful! 

[arcanus121]

A tremendous reading of Keats' perfect poem.