Explore "Spenserian Stanzas on Charles Armitage Brown" by John Keats on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
He is to weet a melancholy Carle:
Thin in the waist, with bushy head of hair, / As hath the seeded thistle when in parle / It holds the Zephyr, ere it sendeth fair / Its light balloons into the summer air; / There to his beard had not begun to bloom, / No brush had touch'd his chin, or razor sheer; / No care had touched his cheek with mortal doom, / But new he was, and bright, as scarf from Persian loom.