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Poems Of John Keats: Terror Of Death, The

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Keats, John

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Terror Of Death, The

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 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 fairy power Of unreflecting love - then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till Love ...

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