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 "title": "Ode on Melancholy",
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 "poet": "John Keats",
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 "book": "Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems",
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  "year": 1820,
  "venue": "Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems (1820)",
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   {
    "text": "No, no! go not to Lethe, neither twist",
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   {
    "text": "Wolf’s-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine;",
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    "text": "Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kiss’d",
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   {
    "text": "By nightshade, ruby grape of Proserpine;",
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   {
    "text": "Make not your rosary of yew-berries,",
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   {
    "text": "Nor let the beetle, or the death-moth be",
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    "text": "Your mournful Psyche, nor the downy owl",
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    "text": "A partner in your sorrow’s mysteries;",
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   {
    "text": "For shade to shade will come too drowsily,",
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    "text": "And drown the wakeful anguish of the soul.",
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    "text": "But when the melancholy fit shall fall",
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    "text": "Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud,",
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    "text": "That fosters the droop-headed flowers all,",
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    "text": "And hides the green hills in an April shroud;",
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    "text": "Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose,",
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   {
    "text": "Or on the rainbow of the salt-sand wave,",
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   {
    "text": "Or on the wealth of globed peonies;",
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   {
    "text": "Or if thy mistress some rich anger shows,",
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   {
    "text": "Emprison her soft hand, and let her rave,",
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   {
    "text": "And feed deep, deep upon her peerless eyes.",
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    "text": "She dwells with Beauty⁠—Beauty that must die;",
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    "text": "And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips",
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    "text": "Bidding adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh,",
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    "text": "Turning to poison while the bee-mouth sips:",
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    "text": "Aye, in the very temple of Delight",
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    "text": "Veil’d Melancholy has her sovran shrine,",
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   {
    "text": "Though seen of none save him whose strenuous tongue",
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   {
    "text": "Can burst Joy’s grape against his palate fine;",
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   {
    "text": "His soul shall taste the sadness of her might,",
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   {
    "text": "And be among her cloudy trophies hung.",
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