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The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled.

The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled.

John Keats
Peace, War, Calm
John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.209, Рипол Классик

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

John Keats
Fear, War, Failure
Letter to James Hessey, 8 October 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 374

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

John Keats
Death, Suicide, War
Quoted in Richard Monckton Milnes, Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats (1848)

Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise!Vanishd unseasonably

John Keats
War, Flower, Eye
John Keats, Jack Stillinger (1982). “Complete Poems”, p.374, Harvard University Press

O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet the Evening listens.

John Keats
Song, War, Evening
'O thou whose face hath felt the winter's wind' (written 1818)

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