Dante Gabriel Rossetti

12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882 / London / England

An Epitaph For Keats

THROUGH one, years since hanged and forgot
Who stabbed backs by the Quarter,
Here lieth one who—while Time's stream
Runneth, as God hath taught her,
Bearing man's fame to men,—will have
His great name writ in water.
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