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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 (Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St.Agnes and Other Poems (Penguin Classics: Poetry First Editions))
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O aching time! O moments big as years!
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John Keats (Hyperion, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, [and] Lamia; edited by G.E. Hollingworth)
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I managed to memorize half of "The Eve of St. Agnes," and would mutter stanzas to myself when I was bored, alone, or at aerobics class.
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Jennifer Egan (Look at Me)