Friday, December 12, 2008

Poetry Friday: Oh, Why Not Some John Keats?


Every once in awhile, I'm just in the mood for Keats:









On the Grasshopper and Cricket


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 drowsiness half lost,
The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills.

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Elaine Magliaro at Wild Rose Reader. is in charge of the Poetry Round-Up this week. Thanks, Elaine!


7 comments:

  1. I love Keats... especially on a snowy morning when I wasn't hearing much of earth's poetry. Thanks!

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  2. Hi Julie. Thanks for what you do here at your blog. You make me hungry for MORE POETRY!! And almost brave enough to try some of these forms myself.

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  3. Thanks for finding some Keats I hadn't read before!

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  4. Even the picture of him is gorgeous, and I'd not read this one before. Thanks!

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  5. How fun to look out on winter and remember open windows and cricket song!

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  6. Julie: I just saw the Trillin interview with Jon Stewart. Too funny! So wry and straght lace, but hilarious.

    Abrupt segue: thanks for the Keats too.

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  7. I've just started using Keats with middle schoolers. They find him a bit overwhelming! Thanks for sharing the poem.

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