“Mrs. Reynold’s Cat” by John Keats
Selected for Immortal Muse by Zireaux (read Zireaux’s comments on this poem) Mrs Reynold’s Cat, by John Keats Cat! who hast passed thy grand climacteric, How many mice and rats hast in thy days...
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Selected for Immortal Muse by Zireaux (read Zireaux’s comments on this poem) Portrait of John Keats by the English painter William HiltonOn Fame by John Keats I. Fame, like a wayward girl, will still...
View ArticleFoot Fetish — Keat’s “Dull Rhymes Chain’d”
A small Roman fresco from Pompei: Note how Adromeda is standing on a rock (sandalled, perhaps?), and Persius must step up to rescue her.Selected for Immortal Muse by Zireaux (read Zireaux’s comments on...
View ArticleLines from Endymion, by John Keats
Selected for Immortal Muse by Zireaux (read Zireaux’s comments on this poem) Lines from Endymion, by John Keats A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into...
View ArticleI’m Like a Eunuch, Or Mute Castrato — Stanza 10
The Baptism Of The Eunuch, by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1626 Res Publica, Book One, Prologue 10. A proverb: Man can’t single-handedly clap – or catch it.10 We can’t give birth without seducing a publisher...
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