Life is but a day;
A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way
From a tree’s summit.


John Keats

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I always made an awkward bow.
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A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
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And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon.
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Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze most softly lulling to my soul.
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The poppies hung Dew-dabbed on their stalks.
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He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty, --that is all
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On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.
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There is a budding morrow in midnight.
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The latest dream I ever dreamed / On the cold hill side.
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Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.
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Virgin-choir to make delicious moan / Upon the midnight hours.
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Soon, up aloft, / The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide.
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Dry your eyes--O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies.
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My chest of books divide amongst my friends--
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Touch has a memory. O say, love, say,
What can I do to kill it and be free?
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know
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Leaving great verse unto a little clan.
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Their smiles, / Wan as primroses gathered at midnight / By chilly-fingered Spring.
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Where's the cheek that doth not fade, / Too much gazed at?
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The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;/ And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
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I stood tip-toe upon a little hill.
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Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu
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I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, / Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs.
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Pass into nothingness.
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Once upon a time, the American met the Automobile and fell in love. Unfortunately, this led him into...
JOHN KEATS
On a half-reapèd furrow sound asleep, / Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook / Spares t...
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Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
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I see a lilly on thy brow, / With anguish moist and fever dew; / And on thy cheek a fading rose / Fa...
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Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
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Hard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain / Clings cruelly to us.
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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the high...
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And there I shut her wild, wild eyes / With kisses four.
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The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a ...
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O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!
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When I behold, upon the night's starred face, / Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance.
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I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the Heart's affections and the Truth of the Imagination
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Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lo...
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Mortality / Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep.
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Parting they seemed to tread upon the air,/ Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart / Only to meet agai...
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Point me out the way / To any one particular beauteous star.
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Now a soft kiss -- Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss
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St Agnes' Eve - Ah, bitter chill it was! / The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; / The hare lim...
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Thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, / In some melodious plot / of beechen green, and shadows numb...
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I have good reason to be content,
for thank God I can read and
perhaps understand Shakespe...
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Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I...
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Fairy Song
Shed no tear! oh, shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Weep n...
JOHN KEATS