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"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
John Keats / Endymion
Endymion
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"Beauty is truth, truth beauty."
John Keats / Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode on a Grecian Urn
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"A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness."
John Keats / Endymion. Book i.
Endymion. Book i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"He ne'er is crown'd With immortality, who fears to follow Where airy voices lead."
John Keats / Endymion. Book ii.
Endymion. Book ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"To sorrow I bade good-morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly; She is so constant to me, and so kind."
John Keats / Endymion. Book iv.
Endymion. Book iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"So many, and so many, and such glee."
John Keats / Endymion. Book iv.
Endymion. Book iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is--Love, forgive us!--cinders, ashes, dust."
John Keats / Lamia. Part ii.
Lamia. Part ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings."
John Keats / Lamia. Part ii.
Lamia. Part ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor."
John Keats / The Eve of St. Agnes. Stanza 3.
The Eve of St. Agnes. Stanza 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"The silver snarling trumpets 'gan to chide."
John Keats / The Eve of St. Agnes. Stanza 4.
The Eve of St. Agnes. Stanza 4.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Asleep in lap of legends old."
John Keats / The Eve of St. Agnes. Stanza 15.
The Eve of St. Agnes. Stanza 15.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow."
John Keats / The Eve of St. Agnes. Stanza 16.
The Eve of St. Agnes. Stanza 16.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"A poor, weak, palsy-stricken, churchyard thing."
John Keats / The Eve of St. Agnes. Stanza 18.
The Eve of St. Agnes. Stanza 18.
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"As though a rose should shut and be a bud again."
John Keats / The Eve of St. Agnes. Stanza 27.
The Eve of St. Agnes. Stanza 27.
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"And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon."
John Keats / The Eve of St. Agnes. Stanza 30.
The Eve of St. Agnes. Stanza 30.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"He play'd an ancient ditty long since mute, In Provence call'd "La belle dame sans mercy.""
John Keats / The Eve of St. Agnes. Stanza 33.
The Eve of St. Agnes. Stanza 33.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"That large utterance of the early gods!"
John Keats / Hyperion. Book i.
Hyperion. Book i.
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"Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars, Dream, and so dream all night without a stir."
John Keats / Hyperion. Book i.
Hyperion. Book i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled."
John Keats / Hyperion. Book ii.
Hyperion. Book ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Dance and Provençal song and sunburnt mirth! Oh for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene! With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stainèd mouth."
John Keats / Ode to a Nightingale.
Ode to a Nightingale.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn."
John Keats / Ode to a Nightingale.
Ode to a Nightingale.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time."
John Keats / Ode on a Grecian Urn.
Ode on a Grecian Urn.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on,-- Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone."
John Keats / Ode on a Grecian Urn.
Ode on a Grecian Urn.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Thou, silent form, doth tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!"
John Keats / Ode on a Grecian Urn.
Ode on a Grecian Urn.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,--that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
John Keats / Ode on a Grecian Urn.
Ode on a Grecian Urn.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity."
John Keats / Stanzas.
Stanzas.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?"
John Keats / Addressed to Haydon. Sonnet x.
Addressed to Haydon. Sonnet x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"E'en like the passage of an angel's tear That falls through the clear ether silently."
John Keats / To One who has been long in City pent.
To One who has been long in City pent.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"The poetry of earth is never dead."
John Keats / On the Grasshopper and Cricket.
On the Grasshopper and Cricket.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain