Sonnet on the Sea by John Keats

Published: Jan. 11, 2008, 12:01 p.m.

b"Keats read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n-------------------------------------------------\\n\\nSonnet on the Sea\\nby John Keats (1795 \\u2013 1821)\\n \\nIt keeps eternal whisperings around\\nDesolate shores, and with its mighty swell\\nGluts twice ten thousand caverns, till the spell\\nOf Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound.\\nOften 'tis in such gentle temper found,\\nThat scarcely will the very smallest shell\\nBe moved for days from whence it sometime fell,\\nWhen last the winds of heaven were unbound.\\nOh ye! who have your eye-balls vexed and tired,\\nFeast them upon the wideness of the Sea;\\nOh ye! whose ears are dinned with uproar rude,\\nOr fed too much with cloying melody,\\nSit ye near some old cavern's mouth, and brood\\nUntil ye start, as if the sea-nymphs choired! \\n\\n\\n\\nComments \\nYou can find more readings of Keats' poetry at:\\nhttp://classicpoetryaloud.wordpress.com/category/John-Keats/\\n\\nFor more on Keats, visit \\nhttp://www.john-keats.com/ \\nhttp://englishhistory.net/keats/chronology.html"