by Keats · Cluster: Ode · Nature vs Civilization · Pastoral Retreat
Abstract
A sonnet recommending Hunt’s tale to those who love nature, evening star and meadow, who will find a bower for the spirit; reading, nature, evening and reverie.
Connections
Topoi: Pastoral Retreat, Book of Nature Motifs: Nature, Stars, Birds, Moon Themes & Concepts: Imagination Forms & Genres: Sonnet
Testo integrale / Full text
Who loves to peer up at the morning sun,
With half-shut eyes and comfortable cheek.
Let him, with this sweet tale, full often seek
For meadows where the little rivers run;
Who loves to linger with that brightest one
Of Heaven - Hesperus - let him lowly speak
These numbers to the night, and starlight meek.
Or moon, if that her hunting be begun.
He who knows these delights, and too is prone
To moralise upon a smile or tear,
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Will find at once a region of his own,
A bower for his spirit, and will steer
To alleys where the fir tree drops its cone,
Where robins hop, and fallen leaves are sear.