<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lines on The Mermaid Tavern</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Souls of Poets dead and gone, <br> What Elysium have ye known,<br> Happy field or mossy cavern,<br> Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?<br> Have ye tippled drink more fine<br> Than mine host's Canary wine?<br> Or are fruits of Paradise<br> Sweeter than those dainty pies<br> Of venison? O generous food!<br> Drest as though bold Robin Hood<br> Would, with his maid Marian,<br> Sup and bowse from horn and can.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> I have heard that on a day<br> Mine host's sign-board flew away,<br> Nobody knew whither, till<br> An astrologer's old quill<br> To a sheepskin gave the story,<br> Said he saw you in your glory,<br> Underneath a new old sign<br> Sipping beverage divine,<br> And pledging with contented smack<br> The Mermaid in the Zodiac.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Souls of Poets dead and gone,<br> What Elysium have ye known,<br> Happy field or mossy cavern,<br> Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Keats">John Keats</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420991" data-title="Lines on The Mermaid Tavern de John Keats" data-description="Souls of Poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host's Canary wine? Or are fruits of Paradise Sweeter than those dainty pies ..."></div> </div> </div>

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