 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...  A Brotherhood Treasury of English Lyrics - Page 301903 - 44 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1848 - 570 pages
...return. VOL. XXV.- NO. XLIX. 12 " KEATS'S LAST SONNET. " I3right star ! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,...fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors — Xo — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To... | |
 | John Keats - 1848 - 420 pages
...blind! xx. KEATS'S LAST SONNET. BRIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as thou artNot in lone splendor hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids...fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors— No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel... | |
 | 1852 - 300 pages
...then that he composed that sonnet of solemn tenderness, Bright star ! would I were stedfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching with eternal lips apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...then that he composed that sonnet of solemn tenderness, Bright star! would I were stedfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching with eternal Hps apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure... | |
 | John Keats - 1859 - 524 pages
...blind ! 1819. LAST SONNET. BRIGHT star, would I were steadfast as thou art! Not in lone splendor hang aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The moTing waters at their priestlike task Of pore ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pages
...vain he sighs, To lift their silken lashes. T. Campbell Bright Star ! would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,...lids apart, Like nature's patient sleepless Eremite, No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair Love's ripening breast To feel... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1862 - 518 pages
...words wander down with the waters of the river to the sea. Bright star ! would I were stedfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,...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,... | |
 | John Keats - 1863 - 492 pages
...1819. XX. KEATS S LAST SONNET. BRIGHT star, would I were steadfast as them art ! I Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids...Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel forever its soft fall and swell, Awake forever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken... | |
 | 1866 - 392 pages
...Magdalen. lol)n Heats. [BORN 1795. DIED i8ai.] SONNET. RIGHT star! would I were steadfast as thou ' art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,...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,... | |
 | John Keats, Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - 1867 - 388 pages
...It was then that he composed this pathetic sonnet — "Bright star ! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,...soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moorsNo — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,... | |
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