Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO JOSEPH SEVERN; FOR THE CENTENARY OF KEATS' DEATH, 26 FEBRUARY 1921, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK


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TO JOSEPH SEVERN; FOR THE CENTENARY OF KEATS' DEATH, 26 FEBRUARY 1921, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We who loved keats will never long forget
Last Line: And watched the soul win free from time's eclipse.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Severn, Joseph (1793-1879)


We who loved Keats will never long forget
Your memory, Severn: how your hand could trace
With tenderest art his dream-enshrouded face;
Could mould that moonlight-haunted brow, where met,
As in a fane on some Greek island set,
The beauty that transcends all time and place,
And the more winsome, earth-begotten grace
Of altar-flowers with limpid dew-drops wet.

But what you gave to Keats the man, your friend,
Has bound your name to his with dearer ties.
You soothed and shared his anguish at the end;
You heard the last cry of those passionate lips;
You last beheld those wonder-seeing eyes;
And watched the soul win free from Time's eclipse.





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