Classic and Contemporary Poetry
KEATS (1821-1921), by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When sometimes, on a moony night, I've passed Last Line: Perfectly happy ... Talking about keats. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
WHEN sometimes, on a moony night, I've passed A street-lamp, seen my doubled shadow flee, I've noticed how much darker, clearer cast, The full moon poured her silhouette of me. Just so of spirits. Beauty's silver light Limns with a ray more pure, and tenderer too: Men's clumsy gestures, to unearthly sight, Surpass the shapes they show by human view. On this brave world, where few such meteors fell, Her youngest son, to save us, Beauty flung. He suffered and descended into hell -- And comforts yet the ardent and the young. Drunken of moonlight, dazed by draughts of sky, Dizzy with stars, his mortal fever ran: His utterance a moon-enchanted cry Not free from folly -- for he too was man. And now and here, a hundred years away, Where topless towers shadow golden streets, The young men sit, nooked in a cheap cafe, Perfectly happy ... talking about Keats. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB ANIMAL CRACKERS by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY |
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