Fill in the Blanks History of English Literature Online version This activity is for students to complete a poem by author John Keats exponent of the history of English literature. by kathe taborda 1 ever priest unchangeable were mask unrest human steadfast ablution death taken breast star splendor else love's mountains Eremite gazing watching moving Bright , would I steadfast as thou art ? Not in lone hung aloft the night And , with eternal lids apart , Like nature's patient , sleepless , The waters at their like task Of pure round earth's shores , Or on the new soft - fallen Of snow upon the and the moors ? No ? yet still , still , Pillowed upon my fair ripening , To feel for its soft fall and swell , Awake forever in a sweet , Still , still to hear her tender - breath , And so live ever ? or swoon to .