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1/17/2021 0 Comments

Hope in Winter

In a time of multiple crises, the most serious a pandemic causing an overwhelming number of illnesses and deaths, a sonnet of John Keats offers us reassurance in "The poetry of earth."  "On the Grasshopper and the Cricket"  asserts:
                                                                             
                                                                             The poetry of earth is ceasing never;
                                                                              On a lone winter evening. when the frost
                                                                               Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills
                                                                               The cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever,
                                                                                And seems to one in drowsiness half lost,
                                                                                The grasshopper's among some grassy hills.

                                                                                 December 30, 1816

                                                                              
                                                                                            
                                                                                                     
                                                                         
                                                                                   
                                                                                    
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    Neva Herrington

    Neva Herrington is a poet and former educator. She is currently working on a new book of poetry, a collection of short stories, and her memoir. Her inspiration comes from her own experience and the work of other poets.

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