Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FOR KEATS, by IRENE SUTTON


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FOR KEATS, by                    
First Line: Whenever I think of you now I think of a garden
Last Line: All day, all youth's long long day
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


whenever i think of you now i think of a garden
and of us who did not die young
who look out over the pointed roofs
stiff and unleafed in the quickening sun
to the ocean that hoards its blooming under the blossomless surf

the eye is fed for the painted roofs are gay in the sun
laid like pale mosaics down to the edge of the sea
and the bay that spreads to the mist-mauve hills beyond
is blue as the blue remembered out of a dream

but the heart goes back, perverse and unappeased,
to the garden -- dreamed? remembered? -- who can say
where hawthornes lift crimson clusters to the sky
where delicate birches sway
like diaphanous fountains caught in the play of the wind
all day, all youth's long long day





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