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ON READING CERTAIN POEMS OF KEATS.

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I turned the sad night to a radiant day.

How did I rest untouched by earthly care,

Remembering not things which had been or were,

But while the stars were sinking to their bed

And darkness came, nodding his dreamy head,

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A lovely vision passed before my eye,

Bright radiant figures on a gloomy sky.

First Dian and Endymion appear,

No longer wrapped in modesty and fear,

But clothed with love as with a garment bright,

Slow gliding did they pass and fade from sight.

Ray-crowned Hyperion like a glittering star

Up heaven's ascent compels his shining car;

Then Lamia's deceit, and Isabel

Mourning the Basil-pot she loved so well.

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