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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET, by JOHN KEATS Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I have fears that I may cease to be Last Line: Till love and fame to nothingness do sink. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) | |||
WHEN I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high piled books, in charact'ry, Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain; When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour! 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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) EPITAPH FOR SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, AT ST. PAUL'S WITHOUT A MONUMENT ... by EDWARD HERBERT TO ELIZABETH, COUNTESS OF RUTLAND by BEN JONSON AN ELEGIE, OR FRIENDS PASSION, FOR HIS ASTROPHILL by MATTHEW ROYDEN AN EPITAPH UPON THE DEATH OF SIR PHILIP SIDNEY by RICHARD BARNFIELD OF SIR PHILIP SIDNEY by JOHN BEAUMONT A DREAM, AFTER READING DANTE'S EPISODE OF PAULO & FRANCESCA by JOHN KEATS |
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