John Keats

Fragment. Where's The Poet?

Where's the Poet? show him! show him, Muses nine! that I may know him. 'Tis the man who with a man Is an equal, be he King, Or poorest of the beggar-clan Or any other wonderous thing A man may be 'twixt ape and Plato; 'Tis the man who with a bird, Wren or Eagle, finds his way to All its instincts; he hath heard The Lion's roaring, and can tell What his horny throat expresseth, And to him the Tiger's yell Come articulate and presseth Or his ear like mother-tongue. 'This is one of a group of undated fragments given at the end of Volume I of the Life, Letters &c. (1848). ' ~ Poetical Works of John Keats, ed. H. Buxton Forman, Crowell publ. 1895.