To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, / Awake for ever in a sweet unrest.
- Source
- Bright Star, written 1819, published 1838
- Written
- 1819
About this quotation
In this sonnet the speaker envies the star for being steadfast, but not for its remote, lonely watch: he would rather be steadfast while resting on his lover’s breast. It was written in 1819 for Fanny Brawne and not published until 1838, after his death.