# Quote — John Keats, The Eve of St Agnes

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

- Author: [John Keats](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-keats.md)
- Book: [The Eve of St Agnes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-keats/the-eve-of-st-agnes.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Keats#The_Eve_of_St._Agnes) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-keats/the-eve-of-st-agnes/and-still-she

## More from this book

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-keats/the-eve-of-st-agnes/a-poor-weak.md)

> The music, yearning like a God in pain.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-keats/the-eve-of-st-agnes/the-music-yearning.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-keats/the-eve-of-st-agnes/she-hurried-at-his.md)