It keeps eternal whisperings aroundDesolate shores, and with its mighty swellGluts twice ten thousand caverns, till the spellOf Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound.Often ’tis in such gentle temper…

BOOK I      Deep in the shady sadness of a valeFar sunken from the healthy breath of morn,Far from the fiery noon, and eve’s one star,Sat gray-hair’d Saturn, quiet as…

St. Agnes’ Eve–Ah, bitter chill it was!    The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold;    The hare limp’d trembling through the frozen grass,    And silent was the flock in woolly fold:    Numb were the…

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…

Fame, like a wayward girl, will still be coyTo those who woo her with too slavish knees,But makes surrender to some thoughtless boy,And dotes the more upon a heart at…

O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm!All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm,And shadowy, through the mist of passed years:For others, good or bad, hatred and tearsHave…

There are who lord it o’er their fellow-menWith most prevailing tinsel: who unpenTheir baaing vanities, to browse awayThe comfortable green and juicy hayFrom human pastures; or, O torturing fact!Who, through…

Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse!O first-born on the mountains! by the huesOf heaven on the spiritual air begot:Long didst thou sit alone in northern grot,While yet our England…

ENDYMION. A Poetic Romance. “THE STRETCHED METRE OF AN AN ANTIQUE SONG.”INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS CHATTERTON. Book I A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:Its loveliness…

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art—    Not in lone splendour hung aloft the nightAnd watching, with eternal lids apart,    Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite,The moving waters at their priestlike…