On The Grasshopper and Cricket

by John Keats

　　

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On The Grasshopper and Cricket is Keats' Sonnet XV. Favorite quote: "The poetry of the earth is never dead."

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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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You may also enjoy Harriet Beecher Stowe's story, Miss Katy-Did and Miss Cricket.

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