“Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream,
And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?
---"On death”

Source: Complete Poems and Selected Letters

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English Romantic poet 1795–1821

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“Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream,
And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?
---"On death”