 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...  A Book of English Sonnets - Page 531906 - 167 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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
...sighs, To lift their silken lashes. T. Campbell Bright Star ! would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching,...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
...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 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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1866 - 392 pages
...lol)n Heats. [BORN 1795. DIED i8ai.] SONNET. RIGHT star! would I were steadfast as thou ' art— 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1867 - 360 pages
...; Nor love's own kiss shall wake those eyes To lift their silken lashes. T. Camplull CXCVIII Bright Star ! would I were steadfast as thou artNot in lone...lids apart, Like nature's patient sleepless Eremite, Pillow'd upon my fair Love's ripening breast To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever... | |
 | John Dennis - Sonnets, English - 1873 - 280 pages
...Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards, And seal the hushed casket of my soul. JOHN CEATS. KEATS'S LAST SONNET. BRIGHT star ! would I were steadfast...patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestly task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of... | |
 | English song - 1873 - 566 pages
...the " Miscellaneous Poems. "] LAST WORDS. J1RIGHT Star! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching,...The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablutions round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains... | |
 | Austin Dobson - Authors, English - 1874 - 332 pages
...of its author : — ' Bright Star! wonld I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hnng aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart,...Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pare ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1875 - 356 pages
...ashes ; Nor love's own kiss shall wake those eyes To lift their silken lashes. T Campbell Bright Star I would I were steadfast as thou artNot in lone splendour...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... | |
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