...sequel of this day, though labour 'tis immense! LINES SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED TO FANNY BBAWNE THIS living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest...haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights That thou would[st]wish thine own heart dry of blood So in my veins red life might stream again, And thou be...

...characters in some such historical play as he had been meditating in the weeks before Christmas: — This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest...again, And thou be conscience-calm'd — see here it is — I hold it towards you. For several days after the haemorrhage he was kept to his room and his bed,...

...'tis immense1. LINES SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED TO FANNY BRAWNE THIS living hand, now warmfand capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of tho tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights That thou would[st | wish thine own heart...

...characters in some such historical play as he had been meditating in the weeks before Christmas: — This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold 456 LETTERS FROM THE SICK-BED And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming...

...be the last poetry he wrote — which gives us an inkling of what the other verse might have been : This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest...haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights That thou wouldst wish thine own heart dry of blood So in my veins red life might stream again And thou be conscience-calmed...

...anguish of remorse for the woman he loves. To appreciate Keats's agony, one must know these lines: "This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest...haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights That thou would[st] wish thine own heart dry of blood So in my veins red life might stream again, And thou be...

...concerning that same warm hand of his. They were discovered written on the margin of Cap and Bells. This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest...haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights That thou would'st wish thine own heart dry of blood So in my veins old life might stream again And thou be conscience-calm'd...

...anguish of remorse for the woman he loves. To appreciate Keats's agony, one must know these lines: "This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest...tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights 1 The poem is written upside down on the page which contains Stanza LI. As the sheet is octavo, there...

...Stania U. As the sheet is octavo, there is no room for more writing on the page. That thou would[st] wish thine own heart dry of blood So in my veins red...again, And thou be conscience-calm'd — see here it is — I hold it toward you." A tentative suggestion made by Sir Sidney Colvin is that these lines may...

...thee. Touch has a memory in dreams. The second fragment is brief, and I give all that there is of it. This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest...haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights That thou wouldst wish thine own heart dry of blood, So in my veins red life might stream again, And thou be...