| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | On the Sea | | By John Keats (1795–1821) |
| | | IT keeps eternal whisperings around | |
| Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell | |
| Gluts twice ten thousand Caverns, till the spell | |
| Of Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound. | |
| Often ’tis in such gentle temper found, | 5 |
| That scarcely will the very smallest shell | |
| Be moved for days from whence it sometime fell. | |
| When last the winds of heaven were unbound. | |
| Oh ye! who have your eye-balls vexed and tired, | |
| Feast them upon the wideness of the Sea; | 10 |
| Oh ye! whose ears are dinned with uproar rude, | |
| Or fed too much with cloying melody,— | |
| Sit ye near some old cavern’s mouth, and brood | |
| Until ye start, as if the sea-nymphs quired! | | | | |
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