Bright Star
John Keats
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Bright Star by John Keats
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Keasts has been described as one of the ‘Big Six’ Romantic poets, along with Coleridge, Blake, Wordsworth, Byron and Shelley.
Romantic Poetry
A tenet of Romantic poetry is its focus on nature and man’s insignificance in comparison to the natural world. It was a turbulent time when the Napoleonic W...
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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.
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Who wrote Bright Star's ?
Bright Star was written by John Keats.
When did John Keats release Bright Star?
John Keats released Bright Star on Fri Oct 22 1819.