| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). Complete Poetical Works. 1893. | | | | A Book of Sonnets | | Keats |
| | | THE YOUNG Endymion sleeps Endymion’s sleep; | |
| The shepherd-boy whose tale was left half told! | |
| The solemn grove uplifts its shield of gold | |
| To the red rising moon, and loud and deep | |
| The nightingale is singing from the steep; | 5 |
| It is midsummer, but the air is cold; | |
| Can it be death? Alas, beside the fold | |
| A shepherd’s pipe lies shattered near his sheep. | |
| Lo! in the moonlight gleams a marble white, | |
| On which I read: “Here lieth one whose name | 10 |
| Was writ in water.” And was this the meed | |
| Of his sweet singing? Rather let me write: | |
| “The smoking flax before it burst to flame | |
| Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed.” | | | | |
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