420. On the Grasshopper and Cricket by John Keats
b'J Keats read by Classic Poetry Aloud: Giving voice to the poetry of the past.\\nwww.classicpoetryaloud.com\\n\\n--------------------------------------------\\n\\n On the Grasshopper and the Cricket\\nby John Keats (1795\\u20131821)\\n\\nThe poetry of earth is never dead:\\n When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,\\n And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run\\nFrom hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;\\nThat is the Grasshopper\\u2019s\\u2014he takes the lead\\n In summer luxury,\\u2014he has never done\\n With his delights; for when tired out with fun\\nHe rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.\\nThe poetry of earth is ceasing never:\\n On a lone winter evening, when the frost\\n Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills\\nThe Cricket\\u2019s song, in warmth increasing ever,\\n And seems to one in drowsiness half lost,\\n The Grasshopper\\u2019s among some grassy hills.\\n\\n\\nDecember 30, 1816.\\n\\nFirst aired: 4 February 2009\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2009'