The Death of Marcus Aurelius

The Death of Marcus Aurelius

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

The Human Seasons


"The Human Seasons" 

John Keats (1795-1821) 

Four Seasons fill the measure of the year;
     There are four seasons in the mind of Man:
He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear
     Takes in all beauty with an easy span:
He has his Summer, when luxuriously
     Spring's honied cud of youthful thought he loves
To ruminate, and by such dreaming high
     Is nearest unto heaven: quiet coves
His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings
     He furleth close; contented so to look
On mists in idleness—to let fair things
     Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook.
He has his Winter too of pale misfeature,
Or else he would forego his mortal nature. 

IMAGE: Kano Eitoku, Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons (1566) 



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