 John Keats's 1819 poem "Ode to Autumn" includes the lines "Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft / The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft".The Chinese Tang dynasty poet Du Fu (712–770) wrote a poem that in the translation by J. P. Seaton begins "House cricket ... Trifling thing.And yet how his mournful song moves us.