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Ode on a Grecian Urn, the Eve of St. Agnes; And Other Poems with Biographical Sketch, Introduction and Notes - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... And when I feel, fair creature of an hour! n That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love!--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink. VII. ON SEEING THE ELGIN MARBLES. My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die 5 Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky. Yet't is a gentle luxury to weep That I have not the cloudy winds to keep, Fresh for the opening of the morning's eye. Such dim-conceived glories of the hrain 10 Bring round the heart an indescribable feud; So do these wonders a most dizzy pain, That mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude Wasting of old Time--with a billowy main A sun--a shadow of a magnitude. Tin, To Hatdon. (with The Pbecedino Sonnet.) Benjamin Robert Haydon, a gloomy and fierce painter, preached long and loudly on the Elgin marbles, and was regarded by his friends, gmongst whom was Keats, as the great apostle of Greek art. Haydon! forgive me that I cannot speak Definitively of these mighty things; Forgive me, that I have not Eagle's wings--That what I want I know not where to seek: 5 And think that I would not be over meek, In rolling out upfollow'd thunderings, Even to the steep of Heliconian springs, Were I of ample strength for such a freak--Think too, that all those numbers should be thine; Whose else? In this who touch thy vesture's hem? For when men star'd at what was most divine With browless idiotism--o'erwise phlegm--Thou hadst beheld the Hesperean shine Of their star in the East, and gone to worship them. IX. ON SITTING DOWN TO HEAD "KING LEAR" ONCE AGAIN. Written January 22, 1818. O...
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John Keats (1795-1821), born in Finsbury Pavement in London, was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. Keats died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-five.
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230269029
- ISBN 13 9781230269023
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages34
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