by John Keats (1795 - 1821)
When I have fears that I may cease to beBefore my pen has glean’d my teeming brain,Before high-piled books, in charactery,Hold like rich garners the full ripen’d grain;When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face,Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,And think that I may never live to traceTheir shadows, […]

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by John Keats (1795 - 1821)
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou artNot 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 taskOf pure ablution round earth’s human shores,Or gazing on the new soft-fallen maskOf snow upon the mountains and the moors;No […]

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by John Donne (1572-1631)
As virtuous men pass mildly away,And whisper to their souls to go,Whilst some of their sad friends do say,“Now his breath goes,” and some say, “No.”
So let us melt, and make no noise,No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;‘Twere profanation of our joysTo tell the laity our love.
Moving of th’ earth brings harms and […]

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