Fontana della Barcaccia, 1627 (Baroque) - Rome, Italy, Pietro Bernini (son of Gian Lorenzo Bernini) |
Bright star! Would I were steadfast as thou art –
Bright star! Would I were steadfast as thou art –
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like Nature’s patient sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores,
Or gazing of the new soft fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountain and the moors –
No- yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow’d upon my fail love’s ripening breast,
To feel forever it’s soft fall and swell,
Awake forever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear forever her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever- or else swoon to death.
-Keats, 1884
Fontana della Barcaccia, 1627 (Baroque) - Rome, Italy, Pietro Bernini (son of Gian Lorenzo Bernini) |
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