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" 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 Literary History of England in the End of the Eighteenth and Beginning ... - Page 153
by Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882
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The Book of Rubies: A Collection of the Most Notable Love-poems in the ...

1866 - 392 pages
...hast ever been, The loved, the lovely Magdalen. lol)n Heats. [BORN 1795. DIED i8ai.] SONNET. RIGHT star! would I were steadfast as thou ' art— Not...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 steadfast, still unchangeable,...
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The Life and Letters of John Keats

John Keats, Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - 1867 - 388 pages
...time even after his return to the ship. It was then that he composed this pathetic sonnet — "Bright star ! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not...ablution round earth's human shores. Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moorsNo — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,...
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The Book of the Sonnet, Volume 1

Leigh Hunt, Samuel Adams Lee - 1867 - 372 pages
...VOL. i. l8 HIS LAST SONNET. BRIGHT STAR ! would I were steadfast as thou art ! Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids...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 steadfast, still unchangeable,...
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language

Francis Turner Palgrave - 1867 - 360 pages
...To lift their silken lashes. T. Camplull CXCVIII Bright Star ! would I were steadfast as thou artNot in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching,...lids apart, Like nature's patient sleepless Eremite, Pillow'd upon my fair Love's ripening breast To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever...
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The Poetical Works of John Keats

John Keats - 1871 - 402 pages
...gust, and my ambition blind ! KEATS' s LAST SONNET. BEIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as thou artNot in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching,...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 steadfast, still...
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The Poetical Works of John Keats: With a Memoir

John Keats, James Russell Lowell, Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton (baron).) - 1871 - 342 pages
...blind ! XX. KEATS'S LAST SONNET. BRIGHT star, would I were steadfast as thou art! Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids...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 steadfast, still unchangeable,...
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The student's treasury of English song, selections from the poets of the ...

English song - 1873 - 566 pages
...? Fled is that music ? Do I wake or sleep ? [From the " Miscellaneous Poems. "] LAST WORDS. J1RIGHT Star! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in...The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablutions round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains...
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English Sonnets: A Selection

John Dennis - 1873 - 280 pages
...casket of my soul. JOHN CEATS. KEATS'S LAST SONNET. BRIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as thou art,Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching,...patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestly task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of...
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Lyrics of love, from Shakespeare to Tennyson, selected and ..., Issue 651

Lyrics, William Davenport Adams - 1874 - 312 pages
...think, be true, My own and only Love, of you. Arthur Hugh Clo-ugh. CLXVIII. LOVES SWEET UNREST. BRIGHT Star ! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not...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 steadfast, still...
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The Civil Service Handbook of English Literature: For the Use of Candidates ...

Austin Dobson - 1874 - 332 pages
...of its author : — ' Bright Star! wonld I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hnng aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart,...Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pare ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains...
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