Share this page: 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" (1820) A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness... -- "Endymion" (1818) For to bear all naked truths, And to envisage circumstance, all calm, That is the top of sovereignty. -- "Hyperion: A Fragment" (1819) "Much have I travelled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen." -- "On First Looking into Chapman's Home" (1817) "Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific -- and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise -- Silent, upon a peak in Darien." -- "On First Looking into Chapman's Home" (1817) Share this page:

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