Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON KEATS, WHO DESIRED THAT ON HIS TOMB SHOULD BE INSCRIBED:, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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! | 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 A DIRGE by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY ADONAIS; AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY |
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