# John Keats

- Quotes: 17
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-keats

## Books

- [The Eve of St Agnes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-keats/the-eve-of-st-agnes.md) — 17 quotes

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> A poor, weak, palsy-stricken, churchyard thing.

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> The music, yearning like a God in pain.

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> She hurried at his words, beset with fears,
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> For there were sleeping dragons all around,
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> At glaring watch, perhaps, with ready spears —
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> Down the wide stairs a darkling way they found. —
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> In all the house was heard no human sound.
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> A chain-droop'd lamp was flickering by each door;
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> The arras, rich with horseman, hawk, and hound,
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> Flutter'd in the besieging wind's uproar;
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> And the long carpets rose along the gusty floor.

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> Unclasps her warmed jewels one by one;
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> Loosens her fragrant bodice; by degrees
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> Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees.

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> He play'd an ancient ditty long since mute,
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> In Provence call'd "La belle dame sans mercy."

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> The silver snarling trumpets 'gan to chide.

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> Music's golden tongue
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> Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.

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> St. Agnes' Eve — Ah, bitter chill it was!
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> The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold;
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> The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass,
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> And silent was the flock in woolly fold.

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> And still she slept an azure-lidded sleep,
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> In blanched linen, smooth, and lavender'd.

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> Full on this casement shone the wintry moon,
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> And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast,
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> As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon;
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> Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest.

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> And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon.

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> As though a rose should shut and be a bud again.

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