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A SONNET TO JOHN KEATS, by                    
First Line: From birds that pour their liquid notes of song
Last Line: Before, so seemed the life of keats when spent.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Yale University


FROM birds that pour their liquid notes of song,
At early morn, and late at eventide;
From curious shells, that in the great deep hide,
And flowers that maidens cull in happy throng;
From deepest solitude of whole days long,
And sculptured stone, of olive Greece the pride;
From stars, the glistening tears of evening's bride,
And waves, that whisper in a mystic tongue;
Keats wooed his strains and with them passion blent.
And as the chalice of a flower is bent
With the sweet burthen of the morning dew,
Yet in its drooping casts to earth anew
A richer fragrance than it e'er hath lent
Before, so seemed the life of Keats when spent.





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