 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1848 - 570 pages
...from which he was destined never to return. VOL. XXV.- NO. XLIX. 12 " KEATS'S LAST SONNET. " I3right star ! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not...fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors — Xo — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To... | |
 | John Keats - Poets, English - 1848 - 420 pages
...blind! xx. KEATS'S LAST SONNET. BRIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as thou artNot in lone splendor hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids...fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors— No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel... | |
 | Biography - 1852 - 302 pages
...it was then that he composed that sonnet of solemn tenderness, Bright star ! would I were stedfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching with eternal lips apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...heart, it was then that he composed that sonnet of solemn tenderness, Bright star! would I were stedfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching with eternal Hps apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure... | |
 | John Keats - 1859 - 524 pages
...blind ! 1819. LAST SONNET. BRIGHT star, would I were steadfast as thou art! Not in lone splendor hang aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The moTing waters at their priestlike task Of pore ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...wake those eyes In vain he weeps, in vain he sighs, To lift their silken lashes. T. Campbell Bright Star ! would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in...lids apart, Like nature's patient sleepless Eremite, No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair Love's ripening breast To feel... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - Essays - 1862 - 512 pages
...the words wander down with the waters of the river to the sea. Bright star ! would I were stedfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the...ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors, — No, — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,... | |
 | English poetry - 1866 - 392 pages
...hast ever been, The loved, the lovely Magdalen. lol)n Heats. [BORN 1795. DIED i8ai.] SONNET. RIGHT star! would I were steadfast as thou ' art— Not...ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors: No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,... | |
 | John Keats, Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - Poets, English - 1867 - 388 pages
...time even after his return to the ship. It was then that he composed this pathetic sonnet — "Bright star ! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not...soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moorsNo — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt, Samuel Adams Lee - Sonnets, American - 1867 - 372 pages
...VOL. i. l8 HIS LAST SONNET. BRIGHT STAR ! would I were steadfast as thou art ! Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids...ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors : No ! yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,... | |
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Bright Star! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's... 
