...reference to "Eremite" in the following lines is an example: Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night...Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task. . . . ("Bright star, would I were stedfast . . .") In order for the allusion to work, the reader naturally...

...true lover never flnd my grave, To weep there. Shakespeare 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...

...were steadfast as thou art' Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids...— 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...

...ideas that Keats had used in his recent letters to Fanny: Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night...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,...

...art — Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like natures patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their...— No — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel forever its soft fall and swell, Awake forever...

...a sonnet is at hand. BRIGHT STAR (John Keats, 1795-1821) Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night...eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,1 The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or...

...poetry; in Keats's 'magic casements opening on the foam of perilous seas in faery lands forlorn';0 in his 'moving waters at their priest-like task of pure ablution round earth's human shore';0 in Shakespeare's 'floor of heaven,' 'inlaid with patens of bright gold'; and in his Dido standing...

...were steadfast as thou art' Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art— Not 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, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel...

...close to the Shakespearian vision in Antony and Cleopatra : Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night...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,...

...Keats s sonnet: Bright Star Bright star, would I were stedfast 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 stedfast, still unchangeable,...