Love Poem - Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art

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Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art

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 shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-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 for ever its soft fall and swell,
   Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever-or else swoon to death.

John Keats
John Keats was born on October 31, 1795 in Finsbury Pavement in London. Keats was one of the principles in the English Romantic Movement. Although only having a short life, from the beginning his work was under critical attack and not of much significance. Keats poetry denotes a love of language and a vibrant and sensual imagination. He received little recognition for his work until he neared the end of his life when he finally produced his most brilliant works of poetry.

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