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John Keats

John Keats

Give Me Women, Wine, and Snuff

GIVE me women, wine, and snuff
Untill I cry out “hold, enough!”
You may do so sans objection
Till the day of resurrection:
For, bless my beard, they aye shall be
My beloved Trinity.

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King Stephen

A FRAGMENT OF A TRAGEDY ACT I. SCENE I. Field of Battle. Alarum. Enter King STEPHEN, K… Stephen. If shame can on a soldie…
Lines Rhymed in a Letter From Oxford

The Gothic looks solemn, The plain Doric column Supports an old Bishop and Crosie… The mouldering arch, Shaded o’er by a larch
A Party of Lovers

Pensive they sit, and roll their l… Nibble their toast, and cool their… Or else forget the purpose of the… Forget their tea—forget their appe… See with cross’d arms they sit—ah!…
Sonnet to Homer

Standing aloof in giant ignorance, Of thee I hear and of the Cyclade… As one who sits ashore and longs p… To visit dolphin-coral in deep sea… So thou wast blind;—but then the v…
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Sonnet. Written in Answer to a Sonnet by J. H. Reynolds

Blue! ‘Tis the life of heaven,—th… Of Cynthia,—the wide palace of th… The tent of Hesperus, and all his… The bosomer of clouds, gold, gray,… Blue! ’Tis the life of waters:—Oc…
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To Mrs Reynolds’ Cat

Cat! who hast pass’€™d thy grand c… How many mice and rats hast in thy… Destroy’€™d? How many tit bits st… With those bright languid segments… Those velvet ears - but pr’€™ythee…
Sonnet: as From the Darkening Gloom a Silver Dove

As from the darkening gloom a silv… Upsoars, and darts into the easter… On pinions that nought moves but p… So fled thy soul into the realms a… Regions of peace and everlasting l…
Sonnet. a Dream, After Reading Dante’s Episode of Paulo and Francesca

As Hermes once took to his feathe… When lulled Argus, baffled, swoon… So on a Delphic reed, my idle spr… So played, so charmed, so conquere… The dragon-world of all its hundre…
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Ode

Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Have ye souls in heaven too, Double lived in regions new? Yes, and those of heaven commune
On Fame

FAME, like a wayward girl, will… To those who woo her with too slav… But makes surrender to some though… And dotes the more upon a heart at… She is a Gipsey,—will not speak t…
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Song of Four Faries

Fire, Air, Earth, and Water, Salamander, Zephyr, Dusketha, and… Salamander. Happy, happy glowing fire! Zephyr.
An Extempore

When they were come into Faery’s… They rang—no one at home—all gone… And dance and kiss and love as fae… For Faries be as human lovers tru… Amid the woods they were so lone a…
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The Gadfly

All gentle folks who owe a grudge To any living thing Open your ears and stay your t[r]u… Whilst I in dudgeon sing. The Gadfly he hath stung me sore—
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Sonnet: Before He Went

BEFORE he went to feed with owl… Nebuchadnezzar had an ugly dream, Worse than an Hus’if’s when she t… Made a Naumachia for mice and rat… So scared, he sent for that 'Good…
Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds

Dear Reynolds, as last night I la… There came before my eyes that won… Of shapes, and shadows, and rememb… That every other minute vex and pl… Things all disjointed come from no…
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