<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509118" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Song Of Keats</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'TIS a tarnished book and old,<br>Edges frayed and covers green!<br>But, between the covers, gold —<br>Gold and jewels in between.<br>And this written (see, O see!<br>How old Time has made it dim)<br>'For one song Keats gave to me<br>I kneel down and worship him.'<br>He who wrote these lines is dust;<br>All of him is passed away;<br>Some hand closed his eyes, I trust,<br>Drew the blind to darken day.<br>Did lips kiss him at the end,<br>Love-lips tremulous yet brave?<br>Had he mistress, child, or friend<br>To sow green grass upon his grave?<br>Nay, we know not — it is long<br>Since he tired of Life's deceits,<br>Closed his ears to sigh and song,<br>Parted with this book, JOHN KEATS.<br>Year by year the Poet thrives;<br>Summer smiles and winter weeps;<br>La Belle Dame Sans Merci lives,<br>But a heart that loved her sleeps.<br>Who would woeful go to miss<br>Roses red in thorns arrayed,<br>When he might with surer bliss<br>Love a milkwhite Devon maid?<br>Beauty kindles man's desire,<br>Beauty dwindles, growing faint;<br>But the girls who never tire<br>Are the girls that poets paint.<br>When the moon has taken wings<br>And the twilight hour is come,<br>Grey the woods, and no bird sings:<br>Grey the world beyond, and dumb:<br>Neither light is there nor breeze,<br>Rose to redden, thorn to pain;<br>Till, look! look! Among the trees<br>A sudden bird! a scarlet stain!<br>So he tired of Fate's defeats,<br>Life's dead trees and woodlands grim,<br>Till sudden-sweet a song of Keats<br>One magic moment gave to him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Roderic+Quinn">Roderic Quinn</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=509118" data-title="A Song Of Keats de Roderic Quinn" data-description="'TIS a tarnished book and old, Edges frayed and covers green! But, between the covers, gold — Gold and jewels in between. And this written (see, O see! How old Time has made it dim) 'For one song Keats gave to me I kneel down and worship him.' H..."></div> </div> </div>

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