"So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries, She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf, Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self."
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John Keats quotes (page 18 of 18)
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"I never was in love - yet the voice and the shape of a woman has haunted me these two days."
"A drainless shower Of light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power; 'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm."
"The world is too brutal for me-I am glad there is such a thing as the grave-I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there."
"So let me be thy choir, and make a moan Upon the midnight hours."
"Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!"
"When I have fears that I may ceace to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teaming brain"."
"But let me see thee stoop from heaven on wings That fill the sky with silver glitterings!"
"... for, by all the stars That tend thy bidding, I do think the bars That kept my spirit in are burst - that I Am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!"
"My friends should drink a dozen of Claret on my Tomb."
"I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave"
"Severn - I - lift me up - I am dying - I shall die easy; don't be frightened - be firm, and thank God it has come."
"I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave--thank God for the quiet grave--O! I can feel the cold earth upon me--the daisies growing over me--O for this quiet--it will be my first."