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“Bright Star” by John Keats

“Bright Star” by John Keats. Megan McIntyre AP Lit pd. 6. Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art- Not in lone splendour hung along aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task

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“Bright Star” by John Keats

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  1. “Bright Star” by John Keats Megan McIntyre AP Lit pd. 6

  2. Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art- Not in lone splendour hung along aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors- No- yet still steadfast, still unchangeable Pillowed upon my fair love’s ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft swell and fall, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever- or else swoon to death.

  3. Lines 1 and 2 Bright star! Would I were as steadfast as thou art- Not in long splendour hung aloft the night

  4. Lines 3 and 4 And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite

  5. Lines 5 and 6 The moving waters at their priestliketast, Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores,

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