John Keats - BRIGHT STAR, WOULD I WERE STEDFAST -poem

Bright star, would I were stedfast 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 stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillowed 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 in death.

1819

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[jamiebonline]

still to hear her tender taken breath - this is perfection

[TheGirlGuitarPlayer]

My favourite poem by Keats - pure and stunning!

[GAIASDREAMER]

One of my favourites by Keats. Beautiful reading.

[virginpoet29]

one of my all time fave poems

[CAROCHAPT]

Who's reading the poem?

[joye25]

Beautiful video and beautiful poem thank you!

[spillcanvasgirl21]

gorgeous thank you :)

[trulytito]

Nice video.

Thanks for uploading.

:)

Regards.

Tito Dutta.

[HangTheDJ16]

Thank you.