Lyrics of life and love / by William Stanley Braithwaite [electronic text]

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Lyrics of life and love / by William Stanley Braithwaite [electronic text]

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Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962.

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Boston: Herbert B. Turner & Co.

1904

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"Lyrics of life and love / by William Stanley Braithwaite [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAC5600.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 10, 2025.

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KEATS WAS AN UNBELIEVER

"Keats was not a believer"

— Biographical Sketch

 "KEATS was an unbeliever,"  —  so they read. The critic's words defame the poet's soul; Nature and Life as one stupendous whole He traced to the source. Thereof a Fountainhead:

 His worship was where light enshrined the head Of Beauty: — for true love and wisdom stole From God to man within her aureole, And God's elect but followed where she lead.

 Of God's elect was Keats: his earthly duty To sing again the music of creation; That first of all, God's dream of life was Beauty; That Beauty is the seed of all salvation : — Holiest of all unbelievers, thus, He made "Believing" possible for us.