John Keats

Sonnet XIV. Addressed To The Same (Haydon)

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Sonnet XIV. Addressed To The Same (Haydon)

Great spirits now on earth are sojourning; He of the cloud, the cataract, the lake, Who on Helvellyn's summit, wide awake, Catches his freshness from Archangel's wing: He of the rose, the violet, the spring, The social smile, the chain for Freedom's sake: And lo!--whose stedfastness would never take A meaner sound than Raphael’s whispering. And other spirits there are standing apart Upon the forehead of the age to come; These, these will give the world another heart, And other pulses. Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings? ------- Listen awhile ye nations, and be dumb. 'In Tom Keats's copy-book this Sonnet is headed simply "Sonnet" and is dated 1816 merely. There are no variations. . . . the two men referred to in the first six lines -- Wordsworth and Leigh Hunt. ' ~ Poetical Works of John Keats, ed. H. Buxton Forman, Crowell publ. 1895.