Monday, January 13, 2003

A Dream, After Reading Dante's Episode Of Paolo And Francesca Comments

Rating: 2.7

As Hermes once took to his feathers light,
When lulled Argus, baffled, swooned and slept,
So on a Delphic reed, my idle spright
So played, so charmed, so conquered, so bereft
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John Keats
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Ratnakar Mandlik 22 June 2019

" Lovers need not tell their sorrows. Pale were the sweet lips. I saw." Fantastic narration.Interesting poem.

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Unnikrishnan E S 23 December 2018

Enjoyed reading this beauty: “lovers need not tell Their sorrows. Pale were the sweet lips I saw, Pale were the lips I kissed, and fair the form I floated with, about that melancholy storm. ” Inimitable flow of images, unharnessed stream of words... great...

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Prabir Gayen 21 December 2018

Extremely romantic poem with extraordinary skill and rhythm... Beautifully executed.. Keats lovely rbyme

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Pietro 6 19 February 2016

Nobody better than Keats might highlight the mystical wonder of Dante's Poem.. Very beautiful

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* Sunprincess * 27 August 2015

.........beautifully penned and so imaginative...the imagery is stunning ★

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p.a. noushad 07 June 2008

the realities of human life and its beauty depicted here.

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John Tiong Chunghoo 10 February 2007

keats is always so well versed in greek mythology. hermes, i love, argus, i too love and the dragons, the hundred eyes, i never saw yet i love for its dragonness. love keats.

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