John Keats wrote a sonnet to the cricket (and the grasshopper), waxing on their never-ceasing "poetry of earth." Indeed, the chirp of the common field cricket drifting through an open window has lulled many people into what Keats described as "drowsiness half lost." -
A Bunch of Ugly Little Trespassers
John Keats wrote a sonnet to the cricket (and the grasshopper), waxing on their never-ceasing "poetry of earth." Indeed, the chirp of the common field cricket drifting through an open window has lulled many people into what Keats described as "drowsiness half lost."-
By Jackie Spinner