...earth, Tasting of Flora and the country green, . Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth! ,'. 0, for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the...bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth. JOHN KEATS ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE • Few things in the whole panoply of nature hold more sensual appeal...

...deep-delved earth, tasting of Flora and the country green, dance and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth! O for a beaker full of the warm South, full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene." JOHN KEATS, Ode to a Nightingale 9 "780195"309577 ELEBRATED •^ by writers from I'ctrach to Peter...

...Williams, Archilochos, and Billy Collins. Most poets opt for flash and filigree — after all, "O, for a beaker full of the warm South, / Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene" (Keats) sounds like poetry. It takes real confidence, and sure judgment, to set down words as simple...