“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-eves run”
"To Autumn", st. 1
Poems (1820)
Context: 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-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the ground, 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’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.
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John Keats 211
English Romantic poet 1795–1821Related quotes
Source: Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge
“But the fruit that can fall without shaking
Indeed is too mellow for me.”
The Answer.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
1860s, Thanksgiving Proclamation (1863)
Context: The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God.
Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World (1968), Ch. 16 : The Scroll Marked IX, p. 95.
(J. Hudson Taylor. Fruit Bearing. Philadelphia: Overseas Missionary Fellowship).
(J. Hudson Taylor. Separation and Service: Or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII. London: Morgan & Scott, n.d., 15-16).
