{
 "id": "john-keats/ode-to-fanny",
 "title": "Ode to Fanny",
 "ordinal": null,
 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "John Keats",
 "poet_slug": "john-keats",
 "language": "en",
 "book": "Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats",
 "book_slug": "life-letters-and-literary-remains",
 "book_kind": "volume",
 "sequence": null,
 "container": null,
 "epigraph": null,
 "first_published": {
  "year": 1848,
  "venue": "Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats (1848)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
  "uncertain": false,
  "sources": [
   "https://archive.org/details/lifelettersliter00keat",
   "https://archive.org/details/lifelettersliter02keat"
  ]
 },
 "source": {
  "kind": "standard-ebooks",
  "repo": "standardebooks/john-keats_poetry",
  "file": "poetry.xhtml",
  "upstream": [
   "https://archive.org/details/completepoetical01keat",
   "https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005261190"
  ],
  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
 },
 "verification": {
  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
 },
 "stats": {
  "n_lines": 56,
  "n_stanzas": 7,
  "n_parts": 0,
  "longest_line_chars": 53,
  "max_indent": 2
 },
 "site_ready": true,
 "parts": [],
 "stanzas": [
  [
   {
    "text": "Physician Nature! let my spirit blood!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "O ease my heart of verse and let me rest;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Throw me upon thy Tripod, till the flood",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Of stifling numbers ebbs from my full breast.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "A theme! a theme! great Nature! give a theme;",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Let me begin my dream.",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "I come⁠—I see thee, as thou standest there;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Beckon me not into the wintry air.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Ah! dearest love, sweet home of all my fears,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And hopes, and joys, and panting miseries,⁠—",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "To-night, if I may guess, thy beauty wears",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "A smile of such delight,",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "As brilliant and as bright,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "As when with ravish’d, aching, vassal eyes,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Lost in soft amaze,",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "I gaze, I gaze!",
    "indent": 2
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Who now, with greedy looks, eats up my feast?",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "What stare outfaces now my silver moon!",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Ah! keep that hand unravished at the least;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Let, let the amorous burn⁠—",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "But, pr’ythee, do not turn",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "The current of your heart from me so soon.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "O! save, in charity,",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "The quickest pulse for me.",
    "indent": 2
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Save it for me, sweet love! though music breathe",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Voluptuous visions into the warm air,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Though swimming through the dance’s dangerous wreath;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Be like an April day",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Smiling and cold and gay,",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "A temperate lily, temperate as fair;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Then, Heaven! there will be",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "A warmer June for me.",
    "indent": 2
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Why, this⁠—you’ll say, my Fanny! is not true:",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Put your soft hand upon your snowy side,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Where the heart beats: confess⁠—’tis nothing new⁠—",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Must not a woman be",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "A feather on the sea,",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Sway’d to and fro by every wind and tide?",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Of as uncertain speed",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "As blow-ball from the mead?",
    "indent": 2
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "I know it⁠—and to know it is despair",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "To one who loves you as I love, sweet Fanny!",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Whose heart goes fluttering for you everywhere,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Nor, when away you roam,",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Dare keep its wretched home:",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Love, love alone, has pains severe and many:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Then, loveliest! keep me free",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "From torturing jealousy.",
    "indent": 2
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Ah! if you prize my subdued soul above",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The poor, the fading, brief pride of an hour;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Let none profane my Holy See of love,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Or with a rude hand break",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "The sacramental cake:",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Let none else touch the just new-budded flower;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "If not⁠—may my eyes close,",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Love! on their last repose.",
    "indent": 2
   }
  ]
 ]
}