With the water that is past." Sarah Doudney (1841-1926) was a contemporary English poet when the Missoula Weekly Gazette published her autumn poem, “The Water Mill,” in 1890. Then, as today, the ...

To bend with apples the mossed 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, Examine the ...

Keats’s ode to autumn brims over with rich, ripe imagery - as fresh today as when it was composed in September 1819, almost two centuries ago.

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In 1819 John Keats wrote five odes, celebratory poems considered to be among the greatest in the English language. In this series of The Essay, five leading contemporary poets each celebrate a single ...

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