John Keats

"No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest."

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Source: 'Hyperion: A Fragment' (1820) bk. 1, l. 7

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John Keats

John Keats

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John Keats was an English Romantic poet known for his vivid imagery and exploration of love, beauty, and mortality in works like 'Ode to a Nightingale.'

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