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The Poetical Works of John Keats, Ed. by W.T. Arnold
The Poetical Works of John Keats Ed by WT Arnold Author:John Keats General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1884 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: HOW many bards gild the lapses of time ! A few of them have ever been the food Of my delighted fancy, -- I could brood Over their beauties, earthly, or sublime : And often, when I sit me down to rhyme, These will in throngs before my mind intrude : But no confusion, no disturbance rude Do they occasion ; 'tis a pleasing chime. So the unnumber'd sounds that evening store ; The songs of birds -- the whispering of the leaves -- The voice of waters -- the great bell that heaves With solemn sound, -- and thousand others more, That distance of recognizance bereaves, Make pleasing music, and not wild uproar. TO A FRIEND WHO SENT ME SOME ROSES AS late I rambled in the happy fields, What time the sky-lark shakes the tremulous dew From his lush clover covert; when anew Adventurous knights take up their dinted shields : I saw the sweetest flower wild nature yields, A fresh-blown musk-rose; 'twas the first that threw Its sweets upon the summer: graceful it grew As is the wand that queen Titania wields. And, as I feasted on its fragrancy, I thought the garden-rose it far excell'd : But when, O Wells ! thy roses came to me, My sense with their deliciousness was spell'd : Soft voices had they, that with tender plea Whisper'd of peace, and truth, and friendliness unquell'd.TO G. A. W. NYMPH of the downward smile and sidelong glance, In what diviner moments of the day Art thou most lovely ? When gone far astray Into the labyrinths of sweet utterance ? Or when serenely wandering in a trance Of sober thought ? Or when starting away, With careless robe, to meet the...« less