Bright Star

by John Keats (1838) — a poem card from Justes Mots

A wish to be as constant as the night's brightest star — but warm, and close, and human.

BRIGHT star, would I were stedfast as thou art-

Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night

And watching, with eternal lids apart,

Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
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Themes: love · admiration