VII
by John Keats
· (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of Isabella, or the Pot of Basil
So once more he had waked and anguished
A dreary night of love and misery,
If Isabel's quick eye had not been wed
To every symbol on his forehead high:
She saw it waxing very pale and dead,
And straight all flush'd; so, lisped tenderly,
'Lorenzo!'—here she ceased her timid quest,
But in her tone and look he read the rest.