...of the primary causes for which he evidently believes radicalism has no cure. Nor can the author of "If thy mistress some rich anger shows, / Emprison her soft hand, and let her rave" ("Ode on Melancholy," Poems 374) be saved for feminism. McGann says that if Keats's friend Charles...

...again in Keats's Ode on Melancholy, but how different the treatment there! The melancholy fit falling "Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, / That fosters...all, / And hides the green hill in an April shroud" 107 centers in the fact of transience, a mortality that has to be confronted through a heroic effort...

...to be cherished for its ephemerality like any of the images listed by Keats in the Melancholy Ode: But when the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from...sorrow on a morning rose, Or on the rainbow of the salt sand- wave, Or on the wealth of globed peonies; Of if thy mistress some rich anger shows, Emprison...

...mysteries; For shade to shade will come too drowsily, And drown the wakeful anguish of the soul. Ill But when the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from...hill in an April shroud; Then glut thy sorrow on a moming rose, Or on the rainbow of the salt sand-wave, Or on the wealth of globed peonies; Or if thy...

...mysteries; For shade to shade will come too drowsily, 10 And drown the wakeful anguish of the soul. 2 But when the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from...all, And hides the green hill in an April shroud; 15 Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose, Or on the rainbow of the salt sand-wave, Or on the wealth...

...evidently — and I should think rightly — believes radicalism has no cure. Nor can the author of "If thy mistress some rich anger shows, / Emprison her soft hand, and let her rave" ("Ode on Melancholy," Poems, p. 374) be saved for feminism. McGann says that if Keats's friend Charles...

...falls through the clear ether silently. And the same advice is given in the 1819 "Ode on Melancholy": But when the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from...salt sand-wave, Or on the wealth of globed peonies; ... (2:1-7) Therefore, "Pleasant smotherings" are Keats's equivalent for opium. And like opium, they...

...Melancholy' Nor let the beede, nor the death-moth be Your mournful Psyche. 5496 'Ode on Melancholy' DL 1837-1899 7828 If I take care of my character,...Clement C. 1779-1863 7830 'A Visit from St Nicholas' Twa 5497 'Ode on Melancholy' She dwells with Beauty - Beauty that must die; And )oy. whose hand is ever...

...shall fall," Keats commands in the "Ode on Melancholy," Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose, (Keats, Or on the rainbow of the salt sand-wave, » Or on the wealth of globed peonies[.) By contrast, Rossetti's desperate speakers either turn their "eyes unto the hills" to seek aid from...

...melancholy lit shall lall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, That fosters the droop-headed (lowers all, And hides the green hill in an April shroud;...salt sand-wave, Or on the wealth of globed peonies. 'Ode on Melancholy' (1820) St. 2 5 She dwells with Beauty— Beauty that must die; And Joy, whose hand...