1. ۱I
2. ۲Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
3. ۳ Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
4. ۴Conspiring with him how to load and bless
5. ۵ With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
6. ۶To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
7. ۷ And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
8. ۸ To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
9. ۹ With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
10. ۱۰And still more, later flowers for the bees,
11. ۱۱Until they think warm days will never cease,
12. ۱۲ For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.
13. ۱۳
14. ۱۴II
15. ۱۵Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
16. ۱۶ Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
17. ۱۷Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
18. ۱۸ Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
19. ۱۹Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
20. ۲۰ Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
21. ۲۱ Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
22. ۲۲And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
23. ۲۳ Steady thy laden head across a brook;
24. ۲۴ Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
25. ۲۵ Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.
26. ۲۶
27. ۲۷III
28. ۲۸Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
29. ۲۹ Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,--
30. ۳۰While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
31. ۳۱ And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
32. ۳۲Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
33. ۳۳ Among the river sallows, borne aloft
34. ۳۴ Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
35. ۳۵And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
36. ۳۶ Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
37. ۳۷ The red-... whistles from a garden-croft;
38. ۳۸ And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.