QuoteQuest“Bright star! would I were stedfast as thou art —Not in lone splendour hung aloft the nightAnd 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.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: John Keats
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
"Bright Star" (1819)
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Keats, John. (n.d.). Wikiquote: John Keats. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Keats
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