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Keats, John - Ode on the Poets - Bards of passion and of mirth
Identifier
001232
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
From Ode on the Poets – John Keats
Bards of passion and of mirth
Ye have left your souls on earth.
Have ye souls in heaven too,
Double lived in regions new?
Yes, and those of heaven commune
With the spheres of sun and moon;
With the noise of fountains wonderous
And the parle of voices thunderous;
With the whisper of heaven's trees
And one another, in soft ease
Seated on Elysian lawns
Browsed by none but Diane's fawns;
Underneath large blue bells tented,
Where the daisies are rose scented,
And the rose herself has got
Perfume which on earth is not;
Where the nightingale doth sing
Not a senseless, tranced thing
But divine melodious truth;
Philosophic numbers smooth;
Tales and golden histories
Of heaven and its mysteries.
The source of the experience
Keats, JohnConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
SoulScience Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
Unrequited loveSuppressions
Beauty, art and musicCommuning with nature
Premature birth