| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1258. Keats |
| | | By Lizette Woodworth Reese |
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| AN English lad, who, reading in a book, | |
| A ponderous, leathern thing set on his knee, | |
| Saw the broad violet of the Egean Sea | |
| Lap at his feet as it were village brook. | |
| Wide was the east; the gusts of morning shook; | 5 |
| Immortal laughter beat along that shore; | |
| Pan, crouching in the reeds, piped as of yore; | |
| The gods came down and thundered from that book. | |
| He lifted his sad eyes; his London street | |
| Swarmed in the sun, and strove to make him heed; | 10 |
| Boys spun their tops, shouting and fair of cheek: | |
| But, still, that violet lapping at his feet,— | |
| An English lad had he sat down to read; | |
| But he rose up and knew himself a Greek. | |
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