“A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.”

— John Keats , Endymion

Bk. I, l. 1
Endymion (1818)

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English Romantic poet 1795–1821

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