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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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Blinded alike from sunshine and from rain,
As though a rose should shut, and be a bud again
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John Keats (The Eve of St. Agnes)
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Upon the honey’d middle of the night,
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John Keats (The Eve of St. Agnes (Penguin Little Black Classics, #13))
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Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth; Philosophic numbers smooth; Tales and golden histories Of heaven and its mysteries.
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John Keats (The Complete Works of John Keats: Poems, Plays & Personal Letters: Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale, Hyperion, Endymion, The Eve of St. Agnes, Isabella…)
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All breathing human passion far above, That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy’d, A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.
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John Keats (The Complete Works of John Keats: Poems, Plays & Personal Letters: Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale, Hyperion, Endymion, The Eve of St. Agnes, Isabella…)
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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)