Keats: Poems by John Keats

Author:John Keats [Keats, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-375-71258-6
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 1994-04-12T00:00:00+00:00

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‘I know what was, I feel full well what is,

‘And I should rage, if spirits could go mad;

‘Though I forget the taste of earthly bliss,

‘That paleness warms my grave, as though I had

‘A Seraph chosen from the bright abyss

‘To be my spouse: thy paleness makes me glad;

‘Thy beauty grows upon me, and I feel

‘A greater love through all my essence steal.’

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The Spirit mourn’d ‘Adieu!’ — dissolv’d, and left

The atom darkness in a slow turmoil;

As when of healthful midnight sleep bereft,

Thinking on rugged hours and fruitless toil,

We put our eyes into a pillowy cleft,

And see the spangly gloom froth up and boil:

It made sad Isabella’s eyelids ache,

And in the dawn she started up awake;

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