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Sonnet: On A Picture Of Leander.

By John Keats

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Come hither all sweet Maidens soberly     Down looking aye, and with a chasten'd light     Hid in the fringes of your eyelids white,     And meekly let your fair hands joined be,     As if so gentle that ye could not see,     Untouch'd, a victim of your beauty bright,     Sinking away to his young spirit's night,     Sinking bewilder'd 'mid the dreary sea.     'Tis young Leander toiling to his death.     Nigh swooning he doth purse his weary lips     For Hero's cheek, and smiles against her smile.     O horrid dream! see how his body dips     Dead-heavy; arms and shoulders gleam awhile;     He's gone; up bubbles all his amorous breath!

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John Keats (1795–1821) was an English Romantic poet whose odes—"Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "To Autumn"—are among the most celebrated in the language. Despite dying of tuberculosis at 25, he produced work of extraordinary sensory richness and philosophical depth.

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