Life, letters, and literary remains, of John Keats, Volume 2 |
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... poor or particolour'd things , My muse had wings , And ever ready was to take her course Whither I bent her force , Unintellectual , yet divine to me ; — Divine , I say ! -What sea - bird o'er the sea Is a philosopher the while he goes ...
... poor or particolour'd things , My muse had wings , And ever ready was to take her course Whither I bent her force , Unintellectual , yet divine to me ; — Divine , I say ! -What sea - bird o'er the sea Is a philosopher the while he goes ...
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... ; on the contrary , I shall ever look with admiration on the exertions made for his comfort and happiness by his numerous friends . No one in England understood his character perfectly but poor Tom , and JOHN KEATS . 43.
... ; on the contrary , I shall ever look with admiration on the exertions made for his comfort and happiness by his numerous friends . No one in England understood his character perfectly but poor Tom , and JOHN KEATS . 43.
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... poor Tom , and he had not the power to divert his frequent melancholy , and eventually increased his disease most fearfully by the horrors of his own lingering death . If I did not feel fully persuaded that my motive was to acquire an ...
... poor Tom , and he had not the power to divert his frequent melancholy , and eventually increased his disease most fearfully by the horrors of his own lingering death . If I did not feel fully persuaded that my motive was to acquire an ...
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... poor Falstaff , though I do not " babble , " I think of green fields ; I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy - their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a ...
... poor Falstaff , though I do not " babble , " I think of green fields ; I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy - their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a ...
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... poor Keats is at his worst . A most unlooked - for relapse has confined him to his bed with every chance against him . It has been so sudden upon what I thought convalescence , and without any seeming cause , that I cannot calculate on ...
... poor Keats is at his worst . A most unlooked - for relapse has confined him to his bed with every chance against him . It has been so sudden upon what I thought convalescence , and without any seeming cause , that I cannot calculate on ...
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Page 103 - He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny, and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again; From the contagion of the world's slow stain He is secure, and now can never mourn A heart grown cold, a head grown grey in vain; Nor, when the spirit's self has ceased to burn, With sparkless ashes load an unlamented urn.
Page 25 - I have given up Hyperion — there were too many Miltonic inversions in it — Miltonic verse cannot be written but in an artful, or, rather, artist's humour. I wish to give myself up to other sensations. English ought to be kept up.
Page 99 - And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's nakedness Pass, till the Spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green access Where, like an infant's smile, over the dead, 440 A light of laughing flowers along the grass is spread.
Page 260 - I HAD a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving! O, what could it grieve for ? Its feet were tied, With a silken thread of my own hand's weaving; Sweet little red feet ! why should you die — Why should you leave me, sweet bird ! why?
Page 269 - I set her on my pacing steed, And nothing else saw all day long, For sidelong would she bend, and sing A faery's song.
Page 291 - It keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell Gluts twice ten thousand caverns, till the spell Of Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound.
Page 269 - I saw pale kings and princes too. Pale warriors, death-pale were they all ; They cried - 'La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!' I saw their starved lips in the gloam, With horrid warning gaped wide, And I awoke and found me here, On the cold hill's side.
Page 108 - Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong, They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
Page 301 - Why did I laugh to-night? No voice will tell: No God, no Demon of severe response Deigns to reply from heaven or from Hell — Then to my human heart I turn at once — Heart! thou and I are here sad and alone; Say, wherefore did I laugh?
Page 277 - They faded, and, forsooth! I wanted wings: O folly! What is Love? and where is it? And for that poor Ambition! it springs From a man's little heart's short fever-fit; For Poesy! — no, — she has not a joy, — At least for me, — so sweet as drowsy noons, And evenings steep'd in honied indolence; O, for an age so shelter'd from annoy, That I may never know how change the moons, Or hear the voice of busy common-sense! And once more came they by; — alas! wherefore?