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 "title": "A Dream, After Reading Dante’s Episode of “Paolo and Francesca”",
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 "poet": "John Keats",
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 "book": "Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats",
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  "year": 1820,
  "venue": "The Indicator, No. XXXVIII (28 June 1820)",
  "note": "Printed unsigned in Leigh Hunt’s Indicator, read here in the scan of the serial: the number is headed “No. XXXVIII.—WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28th, 1820” and carries the sonnet under the heading “A Dream, after reading Dante’s Episode of Paulo and Francesca”. Reprinted in Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats (1848).",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "As Hermes once rook to his feathers light,",
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   {
    "text": "When lulled Argus, baffled, swoon’d and slept",
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    "text": "So on a Delphic reed, my idle spright",
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    "text": "So play’d, so charm’d, so conquer’d, so bereft",
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   {
    "text": "The dragon-world in all its hundred eyes;",
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   {
    "text": "And seeing it asleep, so fled away⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Not to pure Ida with its snow-cold skies,",
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   {
    "text": "Nor unto Tempe where Jove grieved a day;",
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   {
    "text": "But to that second circle of sad hell,",
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   {
    "text": "Where ’mid the gust, the whirlwind, and the flaw",
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    "text": "Of rain and hail-stones, lovers need not tell",
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   {
    "text": "Their sorrows. Pale were the sweet lips I saw,",
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   {
    "text": "Pale were the lips I kiss’d, and fair the form",
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    "text": "I floated with, about that melancholy storm.",
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