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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.

Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.

John Keats
Pain, Pleasure, Pain And Pleasure
John Keats (2009). “Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats”, p.160, Modern Library

Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a muse' d rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy!

John Keats
Art, Time, Pain
Ode to Nightingale St. 6 (1820)

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.

John Keats
Pain, Heart, Sadness
'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 1

My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness - if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor - but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

John Keats
Love, Pain, Passion

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