Keats (From Swindon Advertiser)

Keats

6:20pm Wednesday 11th March 2009

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I have always loved poetry and I have made it my quest to read and study more of it. What better place to start than with Keats?

John Keats was an English poet born in London in 1795. His poetry was popular in the early nineteenth century throughout the Romantic Movement. His life was cut short when he died at the age of 25 of tuberculosis.

This is for my fellow blogger and buddy Paul, who inspires me with both his wonderful art work and words of wisdom.

On the Sea

by John Keats

It keeps eternal whisperings around

Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell

Gluts twice ten thousand caverns, till the spell

Of Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound.

Often 'tis in such gentle temper found,

That scarcely will the very smallest shell

Be moved for days from whence it sometime fell,

When last the winds of heaven were unbound.

Oh ye! who have your eye-balls vexed and tired,

Feast them upon the wideness of the Sea;

Oh ye! whose ears are dinned with uproar rude,

Or fed too much with cloying melody, -

Sit ye near some old cavern's mouth, and brood

Until ye start, as if the sea-nymphs choired!

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