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Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time.

Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time.

John Keats
Children, Silence, Foster Children
'Ode on a Grecian Urn' (1820) st. 1

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children.

John Keats
Nature, Stars, Children
Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 24 October 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 403

The opinion I have of the generality of women--who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar plum than my time, forms a barrier against matrimony which I rejoice in.

John Keats
Children, Women, Giving
John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.752, Delphi Classics

Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.

John Keats
Summer, Children, Wine
'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 5

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.

John Keats
Happiness, Stars, Children
John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.752, Delphi Classics

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