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... The Complete Poetical Works of Keats - Page 230by John Keats - 1899 - 473 pagesFull view - About this book
| Richard Monckton Milnes (1st baron Houghton.) - 1848 - 324 pages
...and my ambition blind ! XX. KEATS'S LAST SONNET. BRIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as thou artNot in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching,...breath, And so live ever — or else swoon to death.* * Another reading : — Half-passionless, and so swoon on to death. POETRY. WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS.... | |
| John Keats - 1848 - 414 pages
...blind ! XX. KEATS'S LAST SONNET. BRIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as thou artNot in lone splendor hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids...breath, And so live ever — or else swoon to death.* » Another reading : — Half-passionless, and so swoon on to death. TOKBINDINO CO. 11SC t-",i-7 s... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1848 - 570 pages
...human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors — Xo — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd...still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live over — or else swoon to death."* — Vol. ii, p. 306. The rest of the " Literary Remains," with a... | |
| John Keats - 1848 - 420 pages
...shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors— No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon...still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever—or else swoon to death.* * Another reading:— Half-passionless, and so swoon on to death. /'... | |
| Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...the moors — • No— yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripeniug breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,...Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear hortender taken brcath, And so live ever — or else swoon to death. which was the last he ever wrote.... | |
| 1856 - 864 pages
...mounUiiny ami the moors — No— yet »tUl stedfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fairlove'a ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and...for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender taken breath, And so live ever — ur else swoon to deaUi. which was the last he ever wrote.... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pages
...the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient sleepless Eremite, No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon...still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever,—or else swoon to death. J. Keats cxcix THE TERROR OF DEATH When I have fears that I may cease... | |
| Sir John Skelton - 1862 - 512 pages
...snow upon the mountains and the moors, — No, — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever...breath And so live ever — or else swoon to death. How the star-sheen on the tremulous tide, and that white death-like " mask," haunt the imagination... | |
| 1863 - 982 pages
...wake those eyes To lift their silken lashes. T) RIGHT Star ! would I were steadfast as thou art — -U Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching,...breath, And so live ever, — or else swoon to death. J. Keats CXCIX THE TERROR OF DEATH WHEN I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd... | |
| John Keats, Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - 1867 - 388 pages
...human shores. Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moorsNo — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd...breath, And so live ever — or else swoon to death." * He wrote it out in a copy of Shakspeare's Poems he had given to Severn a few days before. I know... | |
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