My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,
But being too happy in thine happiness, -
That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees,
In some melodious plot
Of beechen green and shadows numberless,
Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been
           Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the        country green,
    Dance, and Provençal song, and        sunburnt mirth!
O for a beaker full of the warm South,       
    Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,       
        With beaded bubbles winking        at the brim,       
                       And purple-stained mouth;
    That I might drink, and        leave the world unseen,
        And        with thee fade away into the forest dim: 
Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget
    What        thou among the leaves hast never known,
The weariness, the fever, and        the fret
    Here, where men sit and hear each other        groan;
Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs,       
    Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;       
        Where but to think is to be        full of sorrow       
                       And leaden-eyed despairs,
    Where Beauty cannot keep        her lustrous eyes,
        Or new        Love pine at them beyond to-morrow. 
Away! away! for I will fly to thee,
    Not        charioted by Bacchus and his pards,
But on the viewless wings of        Poesy,
    Though the dull brain perplexes and retards:       
Already with thee! tender is the night,
    And        haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne,       
        Cluster'd around by all her        starry Fays;       
                       But here there is no light,
    Save what from heaven        is with the breezes blown
               Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways. 
I cannot see what flowers are at my feet,
    Nor        what soft incense hangs upon the boughs,
But, in embalmed darkness,        guess each sweet
    Wherewith the seasonable month        endows
The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild;       
    White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine;       
        Fast fading violets cover'd        up in leaves;       
                       And mid-May's eldest child,
    The coming musk-rose,        full of dewy wine,
        The        murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. 
Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
    I have        been half in love with easeful Death,
Call'd him soft names in many a        mused rhyme,
    To take into the air my quiet breath;       
Now more than ever seems it rich to die,
    To        cease upon the midnight with no pain,       
        While thou art pouring        forth thy soul abroad       
                       In such an ecstasy!
    Still wouldst thou sing, and I        have ears in vain -
        To thy        high requiem become a sod. 
Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!
    No        hungry generations tread thee down;
The voice I hear this passing        night was heard
    In ancient days by emperor and        clown:
Perhaps the self-same song that found a path       
    Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,       
        She stood in tears amid the        alien corn;       
                       The same that oft-times hath
    Charm'd magic        casements, opening on the foam       
        Of perilous seas, in faery        lands forlorn. 
To toll me back from thee to my sole self!
Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well
As she is fam'd to do, deceiving elf.
Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades
Past the near meadows, over the still stream,
Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep
In the next valley-glades:
Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music: - Do I wake or sleep?
John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale (1819)
I mean Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.Keats i ett brev 1817.
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Det är så vackert ... och vad Keats säger om "Negative capability"... det skriver jag upp i min anteckningsbok.
Den gudarna älskar dör ung- så känns det med Keats.
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