This famous sonnet was written by Keats in Joseph Severn’s copy of The Poetical Works of William Shakespeare opposite the poem ‘A Lover’s Complaint’.
Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art—
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like Nature’s patient sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike […]
















