《燦爛的星》為濟慈所作的一首詩歌。濟慈主張“美即是真，真即是美”，才橫溢，與雪萊、拜倫齊名。他生平只有25歲，但其遺下的詩篇一直譽滿人間，被認為完美地體現了西方浪漫主義詩歌的特色，并被推崇為歐洲浪漫主義運動的杰出代表。

Bright Star

燦爛的星

Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art--

Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,

And watching, with eternal lids apart,

Like Nature’s patient sleepless Eremite,

The moving waters at their priestlike task

Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores,

Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask

Of snow upon the mountains and the moors--

No--yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,

Pillow’d upon my fair love’s ripening breast,

To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,

Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,

Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,

And so live ever--or else swoon to death.

燦爛的星!我祈求像你那樣堅定——

但我不愿意高懸夜空，獨自輝映，

并且永恒地睜著眼睛，

像自然間耐心的、不眠的隱士，

不斷望著海滔，那大地的神父，

用圣水沖洗人所卜居的岸沿，

或者注視飄飛的白雪，象面幕，

燦爛、輕盈，覆蓋著洼地和高山——

呵，不，——我只愿堅定不移地

以頭枕在愛人酥軟的胸脯上，

永遠感到它舒緩地降落、升起;

而醒來，心里充滿甜蜜的激蕩，

不斷，不斷聽著她細膩的呼吸，

就這樣活著，——或昏迷地死去。