Friday, September 23, 2011

When No Fair Dreams Before My Mind's Eye Flit

"When by my solitary hearth I sit,
When no fair dreams before my - mind’s eye - flit,
And the bare heath of life presents no bloom;
Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed,
And wave thy silver pinions o’er my head.
Whene’er I wander, at the fall of night,
Where woven boughs shut out the moon’s bright ray,
Should sad Despondency my musings fright,
And frown, to drive fair Cheerfulness away,
Peep with the moon-beams through the leafy roof,
And keep that fiend Despondence far aloof."
-John Keats
Vlada Roslyakova by Lina Scheynius for Numero Tokyo, via FashionGoneRogue

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