His sonet 'to the nile" was composed in 15 mins

The poets John Keats, P.B. Shelley, and Leigh Hunt once engaged in a friendly competition in February 1818. Each person had a quarter-hour to complete a sonnet, with the river Nile as the only acceptable subject. Hunt had to stay up all night to finish his poem while Shelly and Keats were awake. Hunt once again outperformed the two great poets, making the effort and time invested worthwhile. Years after Keats's passing in 1838, his Petrarchan-style sonnet would be published. Even after Shelley's passing in 1876, his version would continue to be published. The poems show what the great poets were capable of in 15 minutes. The accumulated rains keep coming, soaking those hidden Ethiopian valleys month after month.

Fields of damp snow partially depend on the ice-covered pinnacles of the desert, where heat and cold meet in an odd embrace on the Atlas mountain range. There are explosions and meteors there. With quick spells urging those waters to a great end, the tempest resides beside the aerial urn of the Nile. Over Egypt's field of memory, floods are level and yours, O Nile—and you know full well that wherever you flow, soul-defeating airs and blasts of evil, fruits, and poisons sprout. Be careful, man; knowledge must always be to thee, as the mighty flood to Egypt.