Saturday, July 7, 2012

Quote of the Day (John Keats, on Life as the ‘Rose’s Hope’)


“Life is the rose's hope while yet unblown;
The reading of an ever-changing tale;
The light uplifting of a maiden's veil;
A pigeon tumbling in clear summer air;
A laughing school-boy, without grief or care,
Riding the springy branches of an elm.”—John Keats (1795-1821), from “Sleep and Poetry,” in Complete Poems, edited by Jack Stillinger (1982)

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