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SONNETS: AFTER READING KEATS by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE

First Line: DOWN HIS GREAT CORRIDORS OF SUMPTUOUS
Last Line: THAT PASSIONATE LOVER, YOUNG ENDYMION!
Subject(s): KEATS, JOHN (1795-1821); POETRY & POETS; WRITING & WRITERS;

DOWN his great corridors of sumptuous sound
To-day I wandered once again. Each word
Seemed like the lyric rapture of a bird
Singing in Spring above the burgeoning ground.
O once again that old delight I found,
Once more the marvel of his voice I heard,
Until my spirit with new joy was stirred,
Hearing such music through his halls resound.

How beautiful thy palace, Poet blest! --
That room wherein is set thy Grecian Urn,
Thy Nightingale that sings at set of sun
Out in thy garden where my tired feet turn;
And in one chamber, back from his long quest,
That passionate lover, young Endymion!



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