Fully get that poetry isn't everyone's bag, and that's cool. I hated when we had it in school. I really like Keats. Great master of the meter and sounds of his poems. his imagery gets me.
"La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
I see a lily on thy brow,
With anguish moist and fever-dew,
And on thy cheeks a fading rose
Fast withereth too.
I met a lady in the meads,
Full beautiful—a faery’s child,
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.
I made a garland for her head,
And bracelets too, and fragrant zone;
She looked at me as she did love,
And made sweet moan.
I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
They cried—‘La Belle Dame sans Merci
Thee hath in thrall!’
I saw their starved lips in the gloam,
With horrid warning gapèd wide,
And I awoke and found me here,
On the cold hill’s side.
The last poem he ever wrote, as he lay dying at age 26. He had a whole lifetime of creation in front of him.
"This living hand, now warm and capable"
This living hand, now warm and capable
Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold
And in the icy silence of the tomb,
So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights
That thou would wish thine own heart dry of blood
So in my veins red life might stream again,
And thou be conscience-calm’d–see here it is–
I hold it towards you.
Fully get that poetry isn't everyone's bag, and that's cool. I hated when we had it in school. I really like Keats. Great master of the meter and sounds of his poems. his imagery gets me.
"La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
The last poem he ever wrote, as he lay dying at age 26. He had a whole lifetime of creation in front of him.
"This living hand, now warm and capable"