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Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

John Keats
Death, Flower, Sleep
John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.140, Harvard University Press

Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies!

John Keats
Sleep, Eye, Lows
John Keats (1925). “Poetical Works”

was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music--do I wake or sleep?

John Keats
Love, Dream, Sleep
'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 8

O magic sleep! O comfortable bird, That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind Till it is hush'd and smooth!

John Keats
Sleep, Sea, Bird
Harry Buxton Forman, John Keats (1817). “The complete works of John Keats”, p.86

My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.

John Keats
Death, Sleep, Eagles
John Keats (1818). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.178

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

John Keats
Dream, Sleep, Phantoms
John Keats (1818). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.165

She hurried at his words, beset with fears, For there were sleeping dragons all around.

John Keats
Sleep, Dragons
John Keats (1994). “The Works of John Keats: With an Introduction and Bibliography”, p.217, Wordsworth Editions

Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music:--do I wake or sleep?

John Keats
Dream, Sleep, Past
'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 8

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