Ode to a Nightingale, John Keats

"Though blasphemous and wayward with my word. Though heretic and heathen at my worst. Still I am drenched in the blood." - Modise Sekgothe🕸️ 

"A subtle seduction, singing, soothsaying..." - Faswillah Nattabi🕸️ 

"The cloth that seals society's decay is folded neatly in the backbone of its collapse." - Jonathan Lefenya🕸️ 

<p><strong>John Keats</strong> (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet prominent in the second generation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Romantic</a> poets, with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w ... Show More

<p>This was originally uploaded as a video on my YouTube channel, but I thought it might be nice for some to have the audio. I love these poems dearly, and I hope you will too.</p><p>You can find the original video here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pv3Gt3ADW8">Death ... Show More

Presenting Romantic Poetry 

<p>Australia's storyteller in song on the poems he's loved since childhood, and how reading and learning great poetry has changed his songwriting (R)</p>