Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Suitcase brown.

This afternoon I watched Jane Campion's film, 'Bright Star'. Oh boy! It was beautiful.

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art —
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like Nature's patient, sleepless
Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors —
No — yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,

And so live ever — or else swoon to death
-John Keats, 'Bright Star, Would I Were As Steadfast As Thou Art'

1 comment:

  1. I have never commented someone's blog post! Ah bust alas I must for this one, because Bright Star is one of my ultimo all time-o favourite movies in ze whole entire universo!
    Kudos to you Emooly.

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