When I Have Fears - John Keats | Eternal Poems

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When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain,
Before high-pilèd books, in charactery,
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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AUTHOR:
John Keats was born on October 31, 1795 in Moorgate, London, England. He was an English poet prominent in the second generation of Romantic poets. His poems were indifferently received by critics in his lifetime, but his fame grew rapidly after his death.

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ATTRIBUTION:
John Keats's portrait from William Hilton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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