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How many bards gild the lapses of time!

Other Sonnets of John Keats→ How many bards gild the lapses of time! A few of them have ever been the food Of my delighted fancy,—I could brood Over their beauties, earthly, or sublime: And often, when I sit me down to rhyme, These will in throngs before my mind intrude: But no confusion, no …

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Written on the Day that Mr. Leigh Hunt left Prison

Other Sonnets of John Keats→ What though, for showing truth to flatter’d state, Kind Hunt was shut in prison, yet has he, In his immortal spirit, been as free As the sky-searching lark, and as elate. Minion of grandeur! think you he did wait? Think you he nought but prison walls did see, Till, so …

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