Herbst, gefühlt

Herbst isses. Und hier ist mein Beitrag zum Thema Twitter (letzte Zeile).

Angeblich das meist-anthologisierte Gedicht in der englischen Literatur.

TO AUTUMN.

John Keats (1795-1821)

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 gourd, 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.

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?

Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find

Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,

Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;

Or on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep,
Drows’d with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,—
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

Der Herbst ist dieses Jahr unverhofft schnell gekommen, aber er ist natürlich die schönste Jahreszeit. Discuss.

Frühes Herbstsonnenlicht im Hirschgarten,