“I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.”

— John Keats

To Fanny Brawne (July 25, 1819)
Letters (1817–1820)

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English Romantic poet 1795–1821

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