Her priestess' garments. My quick eyes ran on 55 His flaming robes stream'd out beyond his heels, And gave a roar as if of earthy fire, 60 That scar'd away the meek ethereal hours, And made their dove-wings tremble. On he flared. (57) Lord Houghton gives diamond-paned here; but as the line is otherwise identical with line 220 of Book I of Hyperion as printed by Keats, there can be no doubt that diamond-paved is the right expression. (62) Lord Houghton notes that the manuscript ends here. [In this section are given under one chronology the whole of Keats's poetical writings not included in the three volumes which he issued himself. Some of the following pieces were published during his life-time in The Examiner, or elsewhere, as indicated in the foot-notes; but the great mass are strictly posthumous works, for which the world is indebted to the editorship of Lord Houghton. It is not unlikely that other pieces by Keats may yet be found; for he wrote much commonplace verse when a boy; and I have reason to think that a good deal of it still exists; but it is questionable whether anything of true and sterling value still remains to be discovered.-H. B. F.] POSTHUMOUS AND FUGITIVE POEMS. ON DEATH. I. CAN death be sleep, when life is but a dream, 2. How strange it is that man on earth should roam, His future doom which is but to awake. George Keats assigns these stanzas to the year 1814. Their only interest is in the somewhat thoughtful vein they display for a youth of Keats's age at that time-eighteen or nineteen years. I am not aware that the stanzas have been printed before. |