
John Keats
Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast
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Fair Youth Underneath the Trees
"Bold lover never can't thou kiss, though winning near the goal yet do not grieve. She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, forever wilt thou love, and she be fair." "I am unsettled by the idea of trees that I never bear," he writes in one stanza. The poem is about a young man on an urn beneath some trees who are frozen in time.
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