Epistle to my Brother George by John Keats

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Full many a dreary hour have I past, / My brain bewilder'd, and my mind o'ercast / With heaviness; in seasons when I've thought / No spherey strains by me could e'er be caught / From the blue dome, though I to dimness gaze / On the far depth where sheeted lightning plays; / Or, on the wavy grass outstretch'd supinely, / Pry 'mong the stars, to strive to think divinely:

That I should never hear Apollo's song, / Though feathery clouds were floating all along / The purple west, and, two bright streaks between, / The golden lyre itself were dimly seen:

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