Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology

Mapping Keats’s Progress
A Critical Chronology

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On Fame (Fame, like a wayward girl)

Fame, like a wayward girl, will still be coy
To those who woo her with too slavish knees,
But makes surrender to some thoughtless boy,
And dotes the more upon a heart at ease;
She is a gipsey, will not speak to those
Who have not learnt to be content without her;
A jilt, whose ear was never whisper’d close,
Who thinks they scandal her who talk about her;
A very gipsey is she, Nilus-born,
Sister-in-law to jealous Potiphar;
Ye love-sick bards! repay her scorn for scorn;
Ye artists lovelorn! madmen that ye are!
Make your best bow to her and bid adieu;
Then, if she likes it, she will follow you.

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Keats, John. “On Fame (Fame, like a wayward girl).” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, by G. Kim Blank. Edition 3.27 , University of Victoria, 19 August 2024. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_on_fame_like_a_wayward_girl.html.

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John Keats, “On Fame (Fame, like a wayward girl),” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, Edition 3.27 , last modified 19th August 2024. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_on_fame_like_a_wayward_girl.html.

Chicago Style: Bibliography

Keats, John. “On Fame (Fame, like a wayward girl).” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, Edition 3.27 , last modified 19th August 2024. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_on_fame_like_a_wayward_girl.html.