Bright Star, would I were steadfast as thou art - J. Keats

198 Bright Star, would I were steadfast as thou art
The one-hundred and ninety-eight poem in the collection. (* additional details below)

NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK :

Nature's Eremite: refers to the fable of the Wandering Jew.—This beautiful sonnet was the last word of a poet deserving the title "marvellous boy" in a much higher sense than Chatterton. If the fulfilment may ever safely be prophesied from the promise, England appears to have lost in Keats one whose gifts in Poetry have rarely been surpassed. Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, had their lives been closed at twenty-five, would (so far as we know) have left poems of less excellence and hope than the youth who, from the petty school and the London surgery, passed at once to a place with them of "high collateral glory."