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John Keats (/kiːts/; 31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his works having been in publication for only four years before his death from tuberculosis at age 25.

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Ay, on the shores of darkness there is a light, and precipices show untrodden green; there is a budding morrow in midnight; there is triple sight in blindness keen.

Blindness, Darkness, Keen, Light, Midnight, Sight

The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream-he awoke and found it truth.

Compared, Dream, Imagination, May, Truth

Asleep in lap of legends old.

Asleep, Lap, Legends, Old

Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.

Dream, Dreams, Paradise, Positive Atheism, Sect

The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.

Bright, Creature, Eye, Eyes, His Eyes, Purpose

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.

Drowsy, Heart, Numbness, Pain, Sadness, Though

Works of genius are the first things in the world.

Firsts, Genius, Things, Works, World

Then felt I like some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken.

Sky, Space, Swim, Skies, Ken, Felt

Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.

Divine, Doth, Nightingale, Nightingales, Tranced, Truth

Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold.

Gold, Realms

She press'd his hand in slumber; so once more He could not help but kiss her and adore.

Adore, Hand, Hands, Kiss, Kissing, Romantic Love

Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host's Canary wine?

Mermaid, Mossy, Poets, Soul, Tavern, Wine

They swayed about upon a rocking horse, And thought it Pegasus.

Horse, Pegasus, Poetry, Swayed, Thought

I never can feel certain of any truth, but from a clear perception of its beauty.

Beauty, Certain, Perception, Truth

I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.

Arms, Bolt, Full, Thunder, Wish

Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time.

Children, Foster Children, Silence, Slow, Time

His religion at best is an anxious wish,-like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.

Anxious, Perhaps, Rabelais, Religion, Wish

To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carrière ouverte aux talents, - the tools to him that can handle them.

Handle, Ideas, Kind, Kindness, Napoleon, Tools

A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.

Allegory, Continual, Life, Men, Worth

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.

Beauty, Children, Happiness, Stars, Things, Wind

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