Bright Star
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art —
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors —
No — yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft swell and fall,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever — or else swoon to death.
found on pg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_star,_would_I_were_steadfast_as_thou_art#The_text
He revised this love poem for his beloved Fanny Brawne in the last week of February 1819, immediately after their informal engagement.
Portrait of John Keats by William Hilton. National Portrait Gallery, London
He was an English Romantic poet.
John Keats John Keats was born in Moorgate, London, on 31 October 1795, to Thomas and Frances Jennings Keats. He passed away on 23 February 1821.
The above info and image (wikimedia commons image, in the public domain) found on page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keats
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art —
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors —
No — yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft swell and fall,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever — or else swoon to death.
found on pg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_star,_would_I_were_steadfast_as_thou_art#The_text
He revised this love poem for his beloved Fanny Brawne in the last week of February 1819, immediately after their informal engagement.
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Portrait of John Keats by William Hilton. National Portrait Gallery, London
He was an English Romantic poet.
John Keats John Keats was born in Moorgate, London, on 31 October 1795, to Thomas and Frances Jennings Keats. He passed away on 23 February 1821.
The above info and image (wikimedia commons image, in the public domain) found on page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keats
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