271. When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be by John Keats
b"J Keats read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\n http://classicpoetryaloud.podomatic.com/\\n \\n Giving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n \\n ---------------------------------------------------\\n \\n When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be\\n by John Keats (1795 - 1821)\\n \\n When I have fears that I may cease to be\\n Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,\\n Before high pil'ed books, in charact'ry,\\n Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain;\\n When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face,\\n Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,\\n And feel that I may never live to trace\\n Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;\\n And when I feel, fair creature of an hour!\\n That I shall never look upon thee more,\\n Never have relish in the faery power\\n Of unreflecting love;\\u2014then on the shore\\n Of the wide world I stand alone, and think,\\n Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink. \\n \\n First aired: 28 July 2007\\n \\n For hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n \\n Reading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2008"