I always see #wondrouswednesday by @Eggs and then fail to do it because I can't think of an answer to one of the questions. Not this time!
🐣 KJ Charles, Cat Sebastian, Nghi Vo, and Jordan L Hawk!
🐣 I'm really bad at favorites, but I've always loved poetry and John Keats (tagged) is an easy one to claim. Most of the Romantics, really.
🐣 You see answer one? Ditto! Cat Sebastian and Nghi Vo most of all, with fewer misses in mid-series for me.
Something that will be much needed after the holidays... ?
A stanza from "Sonnet to Sleep"
O soft embalmer of the still midnight,
Shutting with careful fingers and benign,
Our gloom - pleas'd eyes, embower'd from the light,
Enshaded in forgetfulness divine:
O soothest Sleep! If so it please thee, close
In midst of this thine hymn my willing eyes,
Or wait the 'Amen', ere thy poppy throws
Around my bed its lulling charities.
Heard this poem at the Renaissance Faire yesterday and it's stuck with me.
When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44488/when-i-have-fears-that-i-may-cease-...
#PoetryMatters #Cease #JohnKeats
"But when the melancholy fit shall fall
Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud,
That fosters the droop-headed flowers all,
And hides the green hill in an April shroud;
Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose,
Or on the rainbow of the salt sand-wave,
Or on the wealth of globed peonies."
- Ode on Melancholy
"I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
They cried—‘La Belle Dame sans Merci
Hath thee in thrall!‘"
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Visited Keats and Shelley House on Monday, coincidentally on the 200th anniversary of Keats‘ death. Touching memorial. Spanish Steps, Roma.
#poetrymatters @TheSpineView
#Fairhful
Bright Star
by John Keats
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 on the new soft fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors—
#poetrymatters #joy
Full poem here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44469/endymion-56d2239287ca5
I‘m not quite sure what emotion he was hoping to inspire in her here. #notyourtypicallovepoem #poetrymatters #warm @TheSpineView @LazyDays
#marchintothe70s
(Day 8 - #TinyDancer)
Grasshoppers & crickets are leaf dancers, thus *tiny dancers* 🦗🍃
Spent the morning at John Keats house... well the house the destitute poet lodged in with his friends family after deciding he couldn‘t continue to practice medicine anymore as the pull to write poetry was just too strong.. always inspired by someone who relentlessly chases their dreams, however hard that journey may be. 🕊
‘The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
Sweet voice, sweet lips, soft hand, and softer breast,
Warm breath, light whisper, tender semi-tone,
Bright eyes, accomplish‘d shape, and lang‘rous waist!
Faded the flower and all its budded charms,
Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,
Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,
Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise –
Vanish‘d unseasonably at shut of eve...‘
#PoetryMatters #Vanished
I was in Baltimore last week and found a cozy, musty little bookshop (Book Escape; wish I'd taken a picture). Highly recommend. There were a bunch of cool old books (some awesome vintage kid's books), a good selection of used books, and even a small selection of new ones. There were some absolute gems, very reasonably priced. Found this illustrated (!!!) Keats. Couldn't resist. Printed in 1916.
Autumn is almost here 🍂! My favourite season, and the season associated with my favourite poet, John Keats
The #nakedbooks in my reading nook. #oldcoolbooks
Join us! Find my first #OldCoolBooks post for details about the #challenge and #giveaway.
Bookish Holiday Alert! I just visited the Keats-Shelley House in Rome, dragging my travel companions along with me. This is the room in which Keats died, just 25. Because Keats had tuberculosis, it was ordered that all materials in the room be burnt. This painting shows what the room would have looked like.
It was emotional to see this room and read original handwritten letters of some of my fave poets. It was my own bookish pilgrimage
This was how excited my son and I felt to discover an independent book shop hidden away in our closest city.
We were particularly pleased to have our family name included with the great poet's.
#RaisingReaders
Jan. 5- Bookish Goods
My prized bookish possession: the romantic poets teapot by Carters of Suffolk. #riotgrams
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I've listened to an audiobook of some John Keats' poems, read by Samuel West and Michael Sheen..
The beauty of nature, the human response to beauty and suffering, human life in time.. Keats is a Romantic poet and he stole my heart with his compositions!
If you're looking for a macabre love story for your #AllHallowsRead, "Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil" is my favorite. #spinechillingpoetry #poetry #scaretober
pickRomanticism in one volume...I have never tried to read this type of poetry before but Keats weaves beautiful prose pieces together with fantastic images of beauty, love, loss, and whimsy.
"The poetry of earth is never dead"
Went for a walk today and nature never ceases to amaze me. It feels like I am walking inside of book, full of beautifully written lively sentences. (Or inside of a movie as my boyfriend would suggest) I can't believe this is just a few minutes away. I should go more often.
The Poems of John Keats | 
