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The softest notes of falling rills,
The melodies of birds and bees,
The murmuring of summer seas,
And pattering rain, and breathing dew
And airs of evening; and it knew
That seldom-heard mysterious sound,
Which, driven on its diurnal round,
As it floats through boundless day,
Our world enkindles on its way-
All this it knows, but will not tell
To those who cannot question well
The spirit that inhabits it;
It talks according to the wit
Of its companions; and no more
Is heard than has been felt before,
By those who tempt it to betray
These secrets of an elder day:
But sweetly as its answers will
Flatter hands of perfect skill,
It keeps its highest, holiest tone
For our beloved Jane alone.

1822. 1832-1833.

LINES: "WHEN THE LAMP, IS SHATTERED"

WHEN the lamp is shattered
The light in the dust lies dead—
When the cloud is scattered
The rainbow's glory is shed.
When the lute is broken,
Sweet tones are remembered not;
When the lips have spoken,
Loved accents are soon forgot.

As music and splendor
Survive not the lamp and the lute,
The heart's echoes render

No song when the spirit is mute :-
No song but sad dirges,

Like the wind through a ruined cell,
Or the mournful surges
That ring the dead seaman's knell.

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When hearts have once mingled Love first leaves the well-built nest, The weak one is singled

To endure what it once possessed.
O Love! who bewailest
The frailty of all things here,
Why choose you the frailest
For your cradle, your home, and your
bier?

Its passions will rock thee

As the storms rock the ravens on high:
Bright reason will mock thee,
Like the sun from a wintry sky.
From thy nest every rafter
Will rot, and thine eagle home

Leave thee naked to laughter, When leaves fall and cold winds come. 1822. 1824.

SONG FROM CHARLES THE FIRST A WIDOW bird sate mourning for her love

Upon a wintry bough;

The frozen wind crept on above,

The freezing stream below.

There was no leaf upon the forest bare,
No flower upon the ground,

And little motion in the air
Except the mill-wheel's sound.

A DIRGE

1822. 1824.

ROUGH wind, that moanest loud
Grief too sad for song;
Wild wind, when sullen cloud
Knells all the night long;
Sad storm, whose tears are vain,
Bare woods, whose branches strain,
Deep caves and dreary main,

Wail, for the world's wrong!

1822. 1824.

KEATS

LIST OF REFERENCES

edited by H. Buxton Forman, 4 volumes (the Curiete Poetical Works, together with the Letters, vame. Poetical Works, Globe edition, 1 volume. Golden Treasury Series (edited by Palgrave),

BIOGRAPHY

SM) (Lord Houghton), Life, Letters and Literary Remains, d, revised, edition, 1867. *COLVIN (Sidney), Keats Letters Series), 1887. * ROSSETTI (W. M.), Keats (Great No 1887. GOTHEIN (M.), John Keats' Leben und Werke,

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REMINISCENCES AND EARLY CRITICISM

Lord Byron and some of his Contemporaries. HUNT ography. HUNT (Leigh), Review of La Belle Dame sans Mate ludicator, May 10, 1890; Review of the Poems of 1820, in Valcator of August 2 and 9, 1820. (Given in Forman's edition of VI HUNT (Leigh), Imagination and Fancy, 1844. ?GIFFORD wk Review of Endymion, in the Quarterly Review, No. 37, 1818.

(Lord Francis), Edinburgh Review, No. 67, Art. 10, August, Koats Poetry. MITFORD (M. L.), Recollections of a Literary Life. xx (Charles and Mary Cowden), Recollections of Writers. DE Q, Works, Masson's edition, Vol. XI. HAYDON (B. R.), Corresponace and Table-Talk.-See also Medwin's Life of Shelley, Shelley Memod's by Lady Shelley, Taylor's Life of B. R. Haydon, and Medwin's Conversations of Lord Byron.

LATER CRITICISM

ARNOLD (M.), Essays, Vol. II. DILKE (C. W.), The Papers of a Critic Dow DRN (Edward), Studies in Literature: Transcendental Movement and Literature. GoSSE (E.), Critical Kit-kats. * LANG (Andrew), Letters on

Literature. LOWELL, Prose Works, Vol. I: Keats. MABIE (H. W.), Essays in Literary Interpretation: John Keats, Poet and Man. MASSON (David), Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, and Other Essays. OWEN (F. M.), Keats, a study. PHILLIPS (S.), Essays from the Times, Vol. I. ROBERTSON (J. M.), New Essays Towards a Critical Method. ROSSETTI (W. M.), Lives of Famous Poets. SHELLEY (Henry C.), Keats and his Circle. SWINBURNE (A. C.), Miscellanies. TEXTE (Joseph), Études de Littérature européenne: Keats et le Néo-Hellénisme dans la Poésie anglaise. * WOODBERRY (G. E.), Studies in Letters and Life.

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BROOKS (S. W.), English Poets. CAINE (T. Hall), Cobwebs of Critieism. CARR (J. C.), Essays on Art. COURTHOPE (W. G.), Liberal Movement in English Literature. DAWSON (W. J.), Makers of Modern English. DE VERE (A.), Essays, chiefly on Poetry. DEVEY (J.), Comparative Estimate of Modern English Poets, DIXON (W. M.), English Poetry. HALLARD (J. H.), Gallica: Poetry of Keats. HUDSON (W. H.), Studies in Interpretation - Keats, Clough, Arnold. MINTO (William), The Georgian Era. NENCIONI (E.), Letteratura inglese (on Colvin's Biography). NOEL (R.), Essays on Poetry and Poets. SHARP (R. F.), Architects of English Literature. SWANWICK (A.), Poets the Interpreters of Their Age. TucKERMAN (H. T.), Thoughts on the Poets. WILLIS (N. P.), Pencillings by the Way.

TRIBUTES IN VERSE

**SHELLEY, Adonais. * SHELLEY, Fragment on Keats' Epitaph. HUNT (Leigh) Foliage, or Poems Original and Translated: To John Keats; On Receiving a Crown of Ivy from the Same; On the Same; *To the Grasshopper and the Cricket. (Four Sonnets to Keats. Given also in Forman's edition of Keats, Vol. I). * ROSSETTI, Five English Poets: John Keats. * GILDER (R. W.), Poems. LONGFELLOW, Keats, a Sonnet. LOWELL, Poems: Sonnet to the Spirit of Keats. MOORE (G. L.), Keats, a Sonnet. TABB (John B.), Keats, a Sonnet. PAYN (James), Stories from Boccaccio, and other Poems: Sonnet to John Keats. SCOTT (W. B.), Poems: Sonnet on the Inscription, Keats' Tombstone; Ode to the Memory of John Keats. * SPINGARN (J. E.), in Columbia Verse 1892-97: Keats. *BROWNING (E. B.), in Aurora Leigh, Book I. * BROWNING (R.), Popularity.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Providence Public Library, Reading List; Monthly Bulletin, 1895, No. 11. ANDERSON (J. P.), Appendix to Rossetti's Life of Keats.

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KEEN, fitful gusts are whispering here and there

Among the bushes half leafless, and dry;
The stars look very cold about the sky,
And I have many miles on foot to fare.
Yet feel I little of the cool bleak air,
Or of the dead leaves rustling drearily,
Or of those silver lamps that burn on
high,

Or of the distance from home's pleasant lair :

For I am brimful of the friendliness
That in a little cottage I have found;
Of fair-hair'd Milton's eloquent distress,
And all his love for gentle Lycid drown'd;
Of lovely Laura in her light green dress,
And
faithful Petrarch gloriously
?1816. 1817.

crown'd.

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GREAT spirits now on earth are sojourning;

He of the cloud, the cataract, the lake, Who on Helvellyn's summit, wide awake,

Catches his freshness from Archangel's

wing:

He of the rose, the violet, the spring, The social smile, the chain for Freedom's sake:

And lo-whose steadfastness would never take

A meaner sound than Raphael's whispering.

And other spirits there are standing

apart

Upon the forehead of the age to come;

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