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ON KEATS, WHO DESIRED THAT ON HIS TOMB SHOULD BE INSCRIBED: by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: HERE LIETH ONE WHOSE NAME WAS WRIT ON WATER!'
Last Line: A SCROLL OF CRYSTAL, BLAZONING THE NAME OF ADONAIS!
Subject(s): KEATS, JOHN (1795-1821); POETRY & POETS;

'Here lieth One whose name was writ on water!'
But ere the breath that could erase it blew
Death, in remorse for that fell slaughter, -
Death, the immortalizing winter, flew
Athwarth the stream, and time's printless torrent grew
A scroll of crystal, blazoning the name of Adonais!



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