Bright Star
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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John Keats (October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821)
John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was born in London as the eldest of 4 children. His works had been published for only 4 years before his death from tuberculosis at the age of 25. After his premature death, he became one of the most popular English poets. His poetic style distinctively causes extreme emotions through natural imagery.
"Bright Star" explanation
In the poem, addressing to a star, the poet wishes his love to be as constant as the star. The poem is punctuated as a single sentence with the rhyme form of the Shakespearean sonnet (ABABCDCDEFEFGG). It is said to have been a declaration of Keats' love for Fanny Brawne, his fiancée and muse.
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