Lyric Poem · Nature

To My Brother George

by John Keats

Reading room

1Many the wonders I this day have seen:

2The sun, when first he kissed away the tears

3That filled the eyes of Morn;—the laurelled peers

4Who from the feathery gold of evening lean;—

5The ocean with its vastness, its blue green,

6Its ships, its rocks, its caves, its hopes, its fears,

7Its voice mysterious, which whoso hears

8Must think on what will be, and what has been.

9E'en now, dear George, while this for you I write,

10Cynthia is from her silken curtains peeping

11So scantly, that it seems her bridal night,

12And she her half-discovered revels keeping.

13But what, without the social thought of thee,

14Would be the wonders of the sky and sea?

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Poem: To My Brother George
Poet: John Keats
Length: 14 lines
Form: Lyric Poem
Themes: Nature, Love, Sad

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Author record: John Keats1795–1821
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