 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
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 654 pages
...Of 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. f THE BARD SPEAKS. [From the Epistle to my Brother George.'] What though I leave this dull and earthly... | |
 | David M. Main (ed) - 1881 - 496 pages
...unchangeable, Pillowed 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...breath, And so live ever, — or else swoon to death. SIDNEY WALEEE I , , , cccxn WILUAM HTHEY say that thou wert lovely on thy bier, More lovely than tn... | |
 | John Keats - 1882 - 440 pages
...seeing I fast and pray. 1819. KEATS'S LAST SONNET. BRIGHT star! would I were steadfast as thou art— Not 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. TO SPENSER.' SPENSER ! a jealous... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1882 - 362 pages
...To lift their silken lashes. T. Campbell cxcvin 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. y. Keats cxcix THE TERROR OF DEATH When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 420 pages
...their priest-like task Of pure ablution, round earth's human shores ; Or gazing on the soft new-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors ; No...breath, And so live ever — or else swoon to death." Thus the troubled and anguished human creature, driven by the winds and tossed, like the never-resting... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 424 pages
...their priest-like task Of pure ablution, round earth's human shores ; Or gazing on the soft new-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors ; No...still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever—or else swoon to death." Thus the troubled and anguished human creature, driven by the winds... | |
 | Samuel Waddington - 1882 - 280 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. JOHN KEATS. LIBERTY. iAY, What is Freedom ? What the right of souls Which all who know are bound to... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 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. OI)K ON THE POETS. BAUDS of passion and of mirth Yc have left your souls on earth! Have ye souls in... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 364 pages
...the moors ; No ! — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripen ng breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,...breath, And so live ever — or else swoon to death." Thus the troubled and anguished human creature, driven by the winds and tossed, like the never-resting... | |
 | Sir Hall Caine - 1882 - 384 pages
...Of 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...unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, HEY say that thou wert lovely on thy bier, More lovely than in life; that when the thrall Of earth... | |
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