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When I Have Fears
That I May Cease To Be
by John Keats
(1795-1821)
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When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain,
Before high-piled books, in charact'ry,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripened grain;
When I behold upon the night's starred face
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour,
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love! -then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think,
Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.
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I see a schoolboy
when I think of him,
With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window,
For certainly he sank
into his grave
His senses and his
heart unsatisfied,
And made – being poor,
ailing and ignorant,
Shut out from all
the luxury of the world,
The coarse-bred son of a livery-stable keeper –
Luxuriant song.
William Butler Yeats
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