 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 human...  Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature - Page 106by Robert Chambers - 1904Full view - About this book
 | 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...ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors — Xo — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,... | |
 | Richard Monckton Milnes (1st baron Houghton.) - 1848 - 324 pages
...and my ambition blind ! XX. KEATS'S LAST SONNET. BRIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as thou artNot in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching,...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 - 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...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,... | |
 | Biography - 1852 - 302 pages
...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...ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moorg — • No— yet still siedfast, still unchangeable,... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...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...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 stedfast, still unchangeable,... | |
 | 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...— No, — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 982 pages
...wake those eyes To lift their silken lashes. T) RIGHT Star ! would I were steadfast as thou art — -U Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching,...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 - English poetry - 1863 - 496 pages
...1819. XX. KEATS S LAST SONNET. BRIGHT star, would I were steadfast as them art ! I 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,... | |
 | 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...soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors: No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel... | |
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