UNPUBLISHED POEMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13394, 30 May 1914, Page 10

UNPUBLISHED POEMS.

Tho London Times Literary Supplement contains threes hitherto unpublished poems by Keats.. These poems occur in an album tof copies from Keats' poema, made by Richard Woodhouse, the reader and associate, of Keats' publishers. The first poem is a set oft words, for music; the second is . a beginning to the fragment "Tiie \Castle Builder" ; and the third, wj^iqh is. undated and untiled, is as follows : — . ■ * You say you love ; but with a voice Chaster than a nun's, who singeth , The « sofk Vespers to herself i While the cbime-bell ringeth— O love me truly!. You nay you , love : but with a- smile Pold- as suims©; in September ;■ ; A* you were Saint Cupid's nun, ' And kept his- weeks' of ; Ember. O love me truJyM; You say you love,-r-but then your lips Coral tinted^ teach no blisses, More than coral in '• the sea— r They never,, pout for kisses — ,0 love mo tr,uly! You say you love: but then your hand ■ No soft squeeze, for 'squeeze returneth, It is like a statue's, dead — . ; . While mine, to .passion burneth— '; ; ■ O love me truly ! 0 breathe a word, or two of fire! Smjle, as if those words should burn ,me» Squeeze as lovers should — 0 kiss And in thy heart inure me — Q. love .'me truly.!, Sir Sidney Colvin, ; tho well-known authority on Keats, who : communicates, these poems, has written a commentary on them.' , •■-•■•