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Keats una vez vio a una joven dama durante unos minutos, quedando tan cautivado que incluso se sintió afligido.
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TIME’S sea hath been five years at its slow ebb,
Long hours have to and fro let creep the sand,
Since I was tangled in thy beauty’s web,
And snared by the ungloving of thine hand.
And yet I never look on midnight sky,
But I behold thine eyes’ well memoried light;
I cannot look upon the rose’s dye,
But to thy cheek my soul doth take its flight.
I cannot look on any budding flower,
But my fond ear, in fancy at thy lips
And harkening for a love-sound, doth devour
Its sweets in the wrong sense:—Thou dost eclipse
Every delight with sweet remembering,
And grief unto my darling joys dost bring.
Nota breve
Más tarde se descubrió que los dos últimos versos de este poema A - ["Time's sea"]
Every delight with sweet remembering,
And grief unto my darling joys dost bring.
y los de Shakespeare en el soneto CXIII
Even so, being full of your ne'er cloying sweetness,
To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding.
tienen cierta similitud rítmica. No es de extrañar que en una nota al pie de este poema de Keats se mencione: “En el tratamiento rítmico de la estructura emocional y en la creciente musicalidad, se asemeja mucho a los sonetos de Shakespeare”.