This poem laments that "old age shall this generation waste" after noting a creature with "silken flanks with garlands drest." It claims that "breathing human passion far above...leaves a heart high- sorrowful and cloy'd, / a burning forehead, and a parching tongue" in a stanza that mentions a "happy melodist unwearied." The title (*) object is described as a "foster-child of Silence and slow Time" and a "still unravished
This poem laments that "old age shall this generation waste" after noting a creature with "silken flanks with garlands drest." It claims that "breathing human passion far above...leaves a heart high- sorrowful and cloy'd, / a burning forehead, and a parching tongue" in a stanza that mentions a "happy melodist unwearied." The title (*) object is described as a "foster-child of Silence and slow Time" and a "still unravished bride of quietness," and this poem concludes that "Beauty is truth, truth beauty." For 10 points, name this John Keats work about some old pottery.
This poem laments that "old age shall this generation waste" after noting a creature with "silken flanks with garlands drest."
"Ode on a Grecian Urn"