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Bright star, would I were stedfast 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 fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever--or else swoon to death.
John Keats
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Marilyn Hochfield
(4/19/2009 12:44:00 PM) |
A marvelous sonnet! It moves, along with the 'moving waters' in the poem, to the wonderful closing couplet with its surprising and happy repetition of 'Still, still....'
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Travis Snell
(3/29/2009 11:53:00 AM) |
I feel ya john, if only you werent dead i would ask you why you wrote the first line the way you did but oh well
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Armani Mendez
(4/19/2008 9:24:00 AM) |
cool poem like it got style!
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Danielle Nelson
(4/30/2006 10:36:00 PM) |
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sheila knowles
(7/27/2005 3:51:00 PM) |
OH, Keats..you're another one I've missed...what a simply beautiful poem.
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