 John Keats   Ample as the largest winding-sheet.  1   Anxious
as hind towards her hidden fawn.  2             Like two drops
of dew Exhaled to Phœbus’ lips, away they are gone.   Beautiful
as an oriole.  4   See behind, as doth the hunted hare.  5   No
bigger than an unobserved star.  6   Bright as the bow of
Iris.  7   Bright as the humming-bird’s green diadem.  8
  Changeless as truth.  9   Chilly as a dripping well.  10
  Clasp’d like a missal where swart Paynims pray.  11   Clear as
infant’s eyes.  12 Clings cruelly to us, like the gnawing sloth
On the deer’s tender haunches.   Cold as a bubbling well.  14
  Complacent as a cat.  15   Cool as aspen leaves.  16   Crafty
as a snake.  17             O’er our silence creep Like whispers
of the household gods that keep A gentle empire o’er fraternal
souls.   Dark as the parentage of chaos.  19   More dead than
Morpheus’ imaginings.  20     Deify me, as if some blithe wine
Or bright elixir peerless I had drunk, And so become immortal.
  Dismiss’d … as Jove fan