Fragment Wheres The Poet

Where's the Poet? show him! show him,

Muses nine! that I may know him.'Tis the man who with a

Is an equal, be he King,

Or poorest of the

Or any other wonderous thingA man may be 'twixt ape and Plato;'Tis the man who with a bird,

Wren or Eagle, finds his way

All its instincts; he hath

The Lion's roaring, and can

What his horny throat expresseth,

And to him the Tiger's

Come articulate and

Or his ear like mother-tongue.'This is one of a group of undated fragments given at the end of Volume I of the Life,

Letters &c. (1848).' ~ Poetical Works of John Keats, ed.

H.

Buxton Forman,

Crowell publ. 1895.