 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...  A Handbook of English Literature - Page 179edited by - 1897 - 384 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1848 - 570 pages
...SONNET. " I3right star ! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like...fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors — Xo — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To... | |
 | John Keats - Poets, English - 1848 - 414 pages
...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 apart, Like...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... | |
 | Richard Monckton Milnes (1st baron Houghton.) - 1848 - 324 pages
...KEATS'S LAST SONNET. BRIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as thou artNot in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like...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... | |
 | 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...soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moorg — • No— yet still siedfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast,... | |
 | 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...fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors — • No— yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripeniug breast,... | |
 | John Keats - 1859 - 524 pages
...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
...T. Campbell 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, No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair Love's ripening breast To feel... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - Essays - 1862 - 512 pages
...to the sea. Bright star ! would I were stedfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching with eternal lids apart, Like...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
...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 apart, Like...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 438 pages
...cxcvni T) RIGHT Star ! would I were steadfast as thou art — \-J Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like...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... | |
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