To One Who Has Been Long In City Pent [sonnet]

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Title:     To One Who Has Been Long In City Pent [sonnet]
Author: John Keats [More Titles by Keats]

To one who has been long in city pent,
'Tis very sweet to look into the fair
And open face of heaven,--to breathe a prayer
Full in the smile of the blue firmament.
Who is more happy, when, with hearts content,
Fatigued he sinks into some pleasant lair
Of wavy grass, and reads a debonair
And gentle tale of love and languishment?
Returning home at evening, with an ear
Catching the notes of Philomel,--an eye
Watching the sailing cloudlet's bright career,
He mourns that day so soon has glided by:
E'en like the passage of an angel's tear
That falls through the clear ether silently.

[The end]
John Keats's poem: To One Who Has Been Long In City Pent [sonnet]

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