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From life to life, must still pursue
Your happiness ;-for thus alone
Can Ariel ever find his own.
From Prospero's enchanted cell,
As the mighty verses tell,
To the throne of Naples, he
Lit you o'er the trackless sea,
Flitting on, your prow before,
Like a living meteor.
When you die, the silent Moon,
In her interlunar swoon,
Is not sadder in her cell
Than deserted Ariel.
When you live again on earth,
Like an unseen star of birth,
Ariel guides you o'er the sea
Of life from your nativity.
Many changes have been run,
Since Ferdinand and you begun
Your course of love, and Ariel still
Has tracked your steps, and served
your will;

Now, in humbler, happier lot,
This is all remembered not;
And now, alas! the poor sprite is
Imprisoned, for some fault of his,
In a body like a grave ;-

From you he only dares to crave,
For his service and his sorrow,
A smile to-day, a song to-morrow.

The artist who this idol wrought,
To echo all harmonious thought,
Felled a tree, while on the steep
The woods were in their winter sleep,
Rocked in that repose divine
On the wind-swept Apennine;
And dreaming, some of Autumn past,
And some of Spring approaching fast,
And some of April buds and showers,
And some of songs in July bowers,
And all of love; and so this tree,-
Oh that such our death may be !--
Died in sleep, and felt no pain,
To live in happier form again:
From which, beneath Heaven's fairest

star,

The artist wrought this loved Guitar,
And taught it justly to reply,
To all who question skilfully,
In language gentle as thine own;
Whispering in enamored tone
Sweet oracles of woods and dells,
And summer winds in sylvan cells;
For it had learnt all harmonies
Of the plains and of the skies,
Of the forests and the mountains,
And the many-voicéd fountains ;
The clearest echoes of the hills,

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;
't talks according to the wit
Of its companions; and no more
s 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.

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LIST OF REFERENCES

EDITIONS

**COMPLETE WORKS, 4 volumes, edited by H. Buxton Forman, 1883, new edition 1889. COMPLETE WORKS, 5 volumes, edited by H. Buxton Forman, Glasgow and New York, 1900-1901. - COMPLETE WORKS, 4 volumes, edited by N. H. Dole, London and Boston, 1904 (Laurel Edition). COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS, together with the LETTERS, 1 volume, edited by H. E. Scudder, 1899 (Cambridge Edition). POETICAL WORKS, 1 volume, edited by F. T. Palgrave, 1884 (Golden Treasury Series).— POETICAL WORKS, 1 volume, 1902 (Globe Edition). * POETICAL WORKS, 1 volume, edited by E. de Sélincourt, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1905. POETICAL WORKS, 1 Volume, edited by H. Buxton Forman, 1906 (Oxford Edition).

BIOGRAPHY

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*MILNES (R. M.) (Lord Houghton), Life, Letters and Literary Remains, 1st edition, 1848; 2nd, revised, edition, 1867. -* COLVIN (Sidney), Keats (English Men of Letters Series), 1887. ROSSETTI (W. M.), Keats (Great Writers Series), 1887. —SHARP (J.), John Keats, his Life and Letters, 1892. GOTHEIN (M.), John Keats' Leben und Werke, 1897. *HANCOCK (A. E.), John Keats; a literary Biography, 1908.- WOLFF (Lucien), John Keats, sa vie et son œuvre, 1910.

REMINISCENCES AND EARLY CRITICISM

HUNT (Leigh), Lord Byron and some of his Contemporaries. - HUNT (Leigh), Autobiography. - HUNT (Leigh), Review of La Belle Dame sans Merci, in The Indicator, May 10, 1890; Review of the Poems of 1820, in The Indicator of August 2 and 9, 1820. (Given in Forman's edition of Keats, Vol. II). HUNT (Leigh), Imagination and Fancy, 1844. ?GIFFORD (William), Review of Endymion, in the Quarterly Review, No. 37, 1818. JEFFREY (Lord Francis), Edinburgh Review, No. 67, Art. 10, August, 1820: Keats' Poetry. MITFORD (M. L.), Recollections of a Literary Life. — CLARKE (Charles and Mary Cowden), Recollections of Writers. DE QUINCEY, Works, Masson's edition, Vol. XI. — HAYDON (B. R.), Correspondence and Table-Talk. See also Medwin's Life of Shelley, Shelley Memorials by Lady Shelley, Taylor's Life of B. R. Haydon, Medwin's Conversations of Lord Byron, George Paston's B. R. Haydon and his Friends, 1905, and A. B. Miller's Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley, and Keats, 1909.

LATER CRITICISM

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*ARNOLD (M.), Essays in Criticism, Second Series, 1888. BRADLEY (A. C.), Oxford Lectures on Poetry: The Letters of Keats, 1909. BRIDGES (Robert S.), Keats, a critical essay, 1895. BROOKE (S. A.). Studies in Poetry, 1907. DOWDEN (Edward), Studies in Literature

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Transcendental Movement and Literature, 1878. GOSSE (E.), Critical Kit-kats, 1896. *LANG (A.), Letters on Literature, 1889. LANG (A.), Poets' Country, 1907. *LOWELL, Prose Works, Vol. I: Keats (Essay of 1854). MABIE (H. W.), Essays in Literary Interpretation: John Keats, Poet and Man, 1892. MASSON (David), Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, and Other Essays, 1874. MORE (Paul E.), Shelburne Essays, Fourth Series, 1906. PAYNE (W. M.), The Greater English Poets of the Nineteenth Century, 1907. REED (Myrtle), The Love Affairs of Literary Men, 1907. RICKETTS (A.), Personal Forces in Modern Literature, 1906. ROBERTSON (J. M.), New Essays towards a Critical Method,, 1897.*SWINBURNE (A. C.), Miscellanies, 1886. - TEXTE (Joseph), Etudes de Littérature européenne: Keats et le néo-hellénisme dans la poésie anglaise, 1898. TORREY (Bradford), Friends on the Shelf, 1906. - WATSON, (William), Excursions in Criticism: Keats' Letters, 1893. WOODBERRY (G. E.), Studies in Letters and Life, 1890.

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CAINE (T. Hall), Cobwebs of Criticism, 1883. DAWSON (W. J.), Makers of English Poetry (1890), 1906. DE VERE (A.), Essays, chiefly on Poetry, 1887. HUDSON (W. H.), Studies in Interpretation: Keats, Clough, Arnold, 1896. — HUTTON (R. H.), Brief Literary Criticisms, 1906. NENCIONI (E.), Letteratura inglese (on Colvin's Biography). — SYMONS (A.), The Romantic Movement in English Poetry, 1909.

TRIBUTES IN VERSE

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**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. PALGRAVE (F. T.), Lyrical Poems: Two Graves at Rome. ROSSETTI, Five English Poets: John Keats. *Gilder (R. W.), Poems: An Inscription in Rome. - 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. GRISWOLD (G.), in Harvard Lyrics, 1899: To Keats.-CARMAN (Bliss), By the Aurelian Wall. - *REESE (Lizette R.), A Branch of May. DE VERE (Aubrey), Sonnet to Keats. BROWNING (E. B.), in Aurora Leigh, Book I. *BROWNING (R.), Popularity. JOHNSON (R. U.), The Name writ in Water; the Century, February, 1906. THOMAS (Edith M.), The Guest at the Gate, 1909: Bion and Adonais; The House Beside the Spanish Steps. VAN DYKE (Henry), The White Bees, 1909: Two Sonnets; from the Atlantic, November, 1906.STRINGER (Arthur), The Woman in the Rain and other Poems, 1907. BRAITHWAITE (W. S.), Lyrics of Life and Love, 1907. STAFFORD (W. P.), Dorian Days, 1909. SCHEFFAUER (H.), Looms of Life, 1909: Keats at Winter Sundown. LANIER (Clifford), Apollo and Keats on Browning, 1909. - BARKER (E.), Keats; in the Forum, March, 1909.

IMITATION OF SPENSER1

KEATS

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It seem'd an emerald in the silver sheen Of the bright waters; or as when on high,

Through clouds of fleecy white, laugh the cerulean sky.

And all around it dipp'd luxuriously Slopings of verdure through the glossy tide,

Which, as it were in gentle amity, Rippled delighted up the flowery side; As if to glean the ruddy tears, it tried, Which fell profusely from the rose-tree stem!

Haply it was the workings of its pride, In strife to throw upon the shore a gem Outvieing all the buds in Flora's diadem. 1813 or 1814. 1817.1

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