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By John Keats. Bright star, would I were stedfast 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 shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask.
- John Keats
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- John Keats
John Keats. 1795 –. 1821. 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 shores,
Learn More. “Bright Star” is a sonnet by the British Romantic poet John Keats. Written in 1818 or 1819, the poem is a passionate declaration of undying, constant love. The speaker wants to be “stedfast”—constant and unchanging—like the “bright star” described in the poem’s first eight lines.
Bright Star. Probably the best known of all Keats's love poems, this sonnet in fact has more to say about the difficulties of loving than it does about love's bliss and consolation. It is continually agitated by ideas about instability.
In 1819, Keats had an extremely rich year of creativity; he wrote “The Eve of St. Agnes,” “La Belle Dame Sans Merci,” and his six great odes, which include “Ode to a Nightingale,” “Ode on Indolence,” “Ode on Melancholy,” and “Ode on a Grecian Urn.”. The recipients of the letters are friends—the poet and insurance clerk ...
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