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Fragment on Keats

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

ON KEATS, WHO DESIRED THAT ON HIS TOMB SHOULD BE INSCRIBED--

'Here lieth One whose name was writ on water.

But, ere the breath that could erase it blew,

Death, in remorse for that fell slaughter,

Death, the immortalizing winter, flew

Athwart the stream,--and time's printless torrent grew

A scroll of crystal, blazoning the name

Of Adonais!

lovedeathgriefwartime
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First line
ON KEATS, WHO DESIRED THAT ON HIS TOMB SHOULD BE INSCRIBED--
Poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Themes
love, death, grief, war

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