Funny how we re-discover things..

I have searched for many years for a poem I read by chance as a child at an old Aunts house.. I have never been able to remember it's name, who wrote or how it started of course, yet it has niggled away at the back of my mind all these years,as a child I read allot of poetry sadly no much now though..
This one though illuded me until today.... I was looking at 2nd hand books on a market stall & I spotted a book of assorted poems.. Was flicking through & there is was.!!!!!! I don't know if any of you are lovers of poetry but I shall share the 1st verse of many, with you as I am so pleased to have found it.....

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A Thing of Beauty (Endymion)

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its lovliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing
A flowery band to bind us to the earth,
Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth
Of noble natures, of the gloomy days,
Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkn'd ways
Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all,
Some shape of beauty moves away the pall
From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon,
Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon
For simple sheep; and such are daffodils
With the green world they live in; and clear rills
That for themselves a cooling covert make
'Gainst the hot season; the mid-forest brake,
Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms:
And such too is the grandeur of the dooms
We have imagined for the mighty dead;
An endless fountain of immortal drink,
Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink.
John Keats

 

It is a very long poem Mum & very beautiful & calming all the way through, that is just a snippet..

Hmm I like to change my Avatar now & then, she came out well I think..

 

Well funny you should say Zigs.. This is a verse further on , such beautiful words...!
It is very very long but should you want to you can read it here... http://www.bartleby.com/126/32.html

 

Oh Stupid me of course it is, never even crossed my mind I was so excited to have found it again....

 

Well not as a very young child no Redstar only the 1st verse, the rest I discovered in my teens & then it got lost in the kafuffle of life.. So it was so nice to re-discover it again...