To Autumn Flashcards
1
Q
Maturing
A
Sun
2
Q
To load and bless… To
A
Bend… To swell… Plump
3
Q
Bless with fruit the vines that round the
A
Thatch eves run to bend with apples the Mossd cottage trees
4
Q
Fruit… Apples…
A
Gourd… Hazel shells… Sweet kernel
5
Q
Later flowers for the bees until they think warm
A
Days will never cease for summer had o’er brimmed their clammy cells
6
Q
Granary floor… Winnowing wind… Half reap’d furrow
A
Cyder press… Last oozings… Stubble fields
7
Q
Thy hook spares
A
The next swath
8
Q
Clouds bloom the
A
Soft dying day
9
Q
Wail full choir the small gnats mourn… Light wind lives or dies…
A
Full grown lambs loud bleat… Red breast whistles… Gathering swallows Twitter in the skies
10
Q
Season of mists
A
And mellow fruitfulness