After dark vapors have oppress'd our plains
For a long dreary season, comes a day
Born of the gentle South, and clears away
From the sick heavens all unseemly stains.
The anxious month, relieved of its pains,
Takes as a long-lost right the feel of May;
The eyelids with the passing coolness play
Like rose leaves with the drip of Summer rains.
The calmest thoughts came round us; as of leaves
Budding -- fruit ripening in stillness -- Autumn suns
Smiling at eve upon the quiet sheaves --
Sweet Sappho's cheek -- a smiling infant's breath --
The gradual sand that through an hour-glass runs --
A woodland rivulet -- a Poet's death.
Sonnet: After Dark Vapors Have Oppress'd Our Plains
John Keats
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Poem topics: autumn, away, breath, dark, death, feel, lost, rose, sick, summer, gentle, sweet, fruit, play, Season, quiet, poet, Valentine's Day, glass, anxious, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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