Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology

Mapping Keats’s Progress
A Critical Chronology

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On a Leander Which Miss Reynolds, My Kind Friend, Gave Me

Come hither all sweet maidens, soberly
Down-looking — ay, and with a chastened light,
Hid in the fringes of your eyelids white,
And meekly let your fair hands joined be.
As if so gentle that ye could not see,
Untouch’d, a victim of your beauty bright —
Sinking away to his young spirit’s night,
Sinking bewilder’d ’mid the dreary sea:
’Tis young Leander toiling to his death.
Nigh swooning, he doth purse his weary lips
For Hero’s cheek and smiles against her smile.
O horrid dream — see how his body dips
Dead-heavy; arms and shoulders gleam awhile:
He’s gone — up bubbles all his amorous breath!

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MLA Style: Works Cited

Keats, John. “On a Leander Which Miss Reynolds, My Kind Friend, Gave Me.” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, by G. Kim Blank. Edition 3.28 , University of Victoria, 24 September 2026. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_on_a_leander_which_miss_reynolds.html.

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John Keats, “On a Leander Which Miss Reynolds, My Kind Friend, Gave Me,” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, Edition 3.28 , last modified 24th September 2026. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_on_a_leander_which_miss_reynolds.html.

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Keats, John. “On a Leander Which Miss Reynolds, My Kind Friend, Gave Me.” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, Edition 3.28 , last modified 24th September 2026. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_on_a_leander_which_miss_reynolds.html.