PoetJohn Keats

John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, although his poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25. They were indifferently received in his lifetime, but his fame grew rapidly after his death.

When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be

When I have fears that I may cease to be    Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain,  Before high piled books, in charact’ry,    Hold like rich garners the full-ripen’d grain;  When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face,    Huge cloudy symbols...

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