...— The gradual sand that through an hour-glass runs,— in. WRITTEN IN JANUARY, 1818. When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain, Before high piled books, in charact'ry, Hold like full garners the full-ripened grain ; When I behold, upon...

...hour glass runs, — A woodland rivulet, — a Poet's death. WRITTEN IN JANUARY, iSiS. WHEN I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain, Before high piled books, in charact'ry, Hold like full garners the full-ripened grain ; When I behold, upon...

...been used. A fellow-sympathy he must have had with that sonnet of Keats' which begins : " When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain." Aware of the preciousness of his work, he toiled prodigiously while he might, he hoarded his opportunities...

...has his Winter, too, of pale misfeature, Or else he would forego his mortal nature. 'XT THEN I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charact'ry Hold like rich garners the full-ripened grain; When I behold, upon the night's starred face,...

...all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise, Silent, upon a peak in Darien. II When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain, Before high piled books, in charact'ry, Hold like rich garners the full-ripened grain ; When I behold, upon...

...which he lacks the energy to undertake ; or, save once, does he seem to have felt with Keats : — " Fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain, Before that books, in high piled charactery, Hold in rich garners the full ripened grain." He neither writes...

...— The gradual sand that through an hour-glass runs, — 1n. WRITTEN IN JANUARY, 1818. When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain, Before high piled books, in charact'ry, Hold like full garners the full-ripened grain ; When I behold, upon...

...Dead-heavy ; arms and shoulders gleam awhile ; He's gone ; up bubbles all his amorous breath ! WHEN I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charact'ry, Hold like full garners the full-ripened grain ; When I behold, upon the night's starred...

...wings to fly at my desire. SONNET. WHEN I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain ; When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,...

...Wasting of old Time — with a billowy main, A sun, a shadow of a magnitude. JOHN KEATS WHEN I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain, Before high-piled books in charact'ry Hold like rich garners the full-ripened grain ; When I behold, upon the night's starred...