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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: KEATS'S GRAVE Here lies one whose name was writ in water. Ah, here it is at last How still and deep The hush within these walls How slowly creep The hours that grow to days, the days to years, The years that pass unmarked Here nothing stirs, Or breathes, or falls on stillness. Did they well Who gave to stone to keep those words that fell From your despairing lips when hope had flown ? Harsh grace to close the feast Must such alone Sum up at last the joy your spirit snatched, When through the door of dreams, for you unlatched, You passed unchallenged ? Was it nought to live Possessed at times by joy men could not give, Nor their neglect take from you ? O for grief That finds in utterance such as yours relief For tears that glistening in the skies of song Take on such rainbow splendour They were wrong; They but o'erheard the sad, self-pitying cry Of youth that knows that life has put him by, And that the perfect thing his soul conceived For the world's wonderment must, unachieved, Now come to nothing. Would that yours had been To sleep at last where English grass is green Beneath an English sky This is not home; You had no part in, sang no song of Rome. Yours was that spirit of the world's romance Rome drove before it ever. Bacchic dance And satyr revelry grew hushed and still Before the legions' tramp; from fount and rill The nymphs were scared away, and came no more To soothe by sombre pool and pebbled shore Their soft complaining waters. But I bring, Faded, alas, from night-long journeying, From far-off English lane and walled-in hush, Wild roses, white and maiden-like a-blush, And their imperial sisters passion-red Yet virginally regnant; violets bred Where late the primrose drooped; a daisy, too, Hiding among them all for lov...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217016292 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217016294 |
| Weight | 2.08 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.44 In |
| List Price | $43.80 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 652 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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