A Young English Poet

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The grave of the English poet John Keats (1795–1821)
Cimitero acattolico (Non-Catholic Cemetery)
Via Caio Cestio
Rome, May 2011

This Grave
contains all that was Mortal
of a
Young English Poet
Who
on his Death Bed, in the Bitterness of his Heart
at the Malicious Power of his Enemies
Desired
these Words to be
engraven on his Tomb Stone:
Here lies One
Whose Name was writ in Water.
24 February 1821