Living
I Have Written My Name on Water: The Proposed Inscription on the Tomb of John Keats
From Poems (1851), vol. II: Meditative and Descriptive Pieces
Living
And if thou hast, where could st thou write it better
Than on the feeder of all lives that live ?
The tide, the stream, will bear away the letter.
And all that formal is and fugitive :
Still shall thy Genius be a vital power.
Feeding the root of many a beauteous flower.
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Coleridge, Hartley. “I Have Written My Name on Water: The Proposed Inscription on the Tomb of John Keats.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge_h/211/.
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Coleridge, Hartley. “I Have Written My Name on Water: The Proposed Inscription on the Tomb of John Keats.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge_h/211/.
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