Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology

Mapping Keats’s Progress
A Critical Chronology

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References to this poem

Give me your patience sister while I frame

Give me your patience, sister, while I frame
Exact in capitals your golden name:
Or sue the fair Apollo and he will
Rouse from his heavy slumber and instill
Great love in me for thee and Poesy.
Imagine not that greatest mastery
And kingdom over all the realms of verse
Nears more to heaven in aught than when we nurse
And surety give to love and brotherhood.

Anthropophagi in Othello’s mood;
Ulysses stormed, and his enchanted belt
Glow with the muse, but they are never felt
Unbosom’d so and so eternal made,
Such tender incense in their laurel shade,
To all the regent sisters of the Nine,
As this poor offering to you, sister mine.

Kind sister! aye, this third name says you are;
Enchanted has it been the Lord knows where.
And may it taste to you like good old wine,
Take you to real happiness and give
Sons, daughters and a home like honied hive.

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MLA Style: Works Cited

Keats, John. “ Give me your patience sister while I frame .” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, by G. Kim Blank. Edition 3.25 , University of Victoria, 29 May 2023. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_give_me_your_patience_sister_while.html.

Chicago Style: Note

John Keats, “ Give me your patience sister while I frame ,” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, Edition 3.25 , last modified 29th May 2023. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_give_me_your_patience_sister_while.html.

Chicago Style: Bibliography

Keats, John. “ Give me your patience sister while I frame .” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, Edition 3.25 , last modified 29th May 2023. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_give_me_your_patience_sister_while.html.