Meaning of “Autumn spoke loudly of the beautiful.”

“To Autumn,” in Keats: Poems Published in 1820; Project Gutenberg #23684. The phrase opens a poem whose imagery follows ripening, harvest and the sounds of the season.

“Another Spring,” Project Gutenberg #16950. The stanza begins conditionally—'If I might see another Spring'—so the present-focused conclusion grows from mortality and uncertainty.

On the Grasshopper and Cricket, opening line.

Poems of Optimism, “Beauty”; Project Gutenberg #7421. The surrounding poem is explicitly religious and aesthetic, repeatedly connecting beauty with God, stars, sunsets and ordinary perception.

Winter Sunshine, essay “The Exhilarations of the Road.” The sentence follows Burroughs’s comparison of winter walks in different directions and precedes his claim that all roads lead toward the walker’s sought-for Jerusalem.

Endymion: A Poetic Romance (1818), Book I, lines 2–3, Project Gutenberg #24280. “Its loveliness increases; it will never / Pass into nothingness” directly continues the opening “A thing of beauty” claim inside Keats’s idealizing Romantic account of beauty and imagination; it is poetry, not an experimentally established law of aesthetic memory or wellbeing.