Rossetti Archive Textual Transcription
Document Title: John Keats (Delaware first draft)
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of Composition: 1880
Type of Manuscript: draft manuscript
Scribe: DGR
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- The weltering City London ways where children weep
- And girls whom none call maidens laugh; the lane
- That winds b Between the lazar- hospital beds of drown moaning pain;
- The brink of Helicon Castaly and Lamos' steep:—
- Such were his paths, till last his steps feet sunk deeper & more deep
- In the dull He trod the sands of Lethe; and his brain,
- Weary with labour scorned and love found vain,
- Drowsed where the shadow of dead Rome wraps his sleep.
- O pang-dowered Poet, who with resonant lips,
- 10Tabret and timbrel, woke the m Moon's eclipse,—
- Thou whom the daisies glory in growing o'er,—
- To us thou leav'st their fragrance, and a name
- Not writ but spoken in water, while thy fame
- Echoes along Time's flood for evermore!
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