Ere I wrote a word
I heard the morning bird
Who knows not of plot,
Yet he
Inspires poetry.
Keats had his Nightingale.
But All hearts fail.
Though poetry lives on
When poets are gone
Ere I wrote a word
I heard the morning bird
Who knows not of plot,
Yet he
Inspires poetry.
Keats had his Nightingale.
But All hearts fail.
Though poetry lives on
When poets are gone
The birds fail to drown out the thought
he perhaps ought
Not to entertain.
But can a man
Who’s blood is hot
Constrain his brain
To dwell always on Keats
And think not on sheets?