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 "id": "john-keats/on-a-picture-of-leander",
 "title": "On a Picture of Leander",
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 "poet": "John Keats",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poetry",
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1829,
  "venue": "The Gem: A Literary Annual (1829), edited by Thomas Hood",
  "note": "The claim is the headnote to this poem in The Complete Poetical Works of John Keats, Cambridge Edition (Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1899). The sonnet is undated in the manuscripts and is not in the two volumes of Milnes’s 1848 edition read here. No copy of The Gem has been read here.",
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   "https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005261190"
  ],
  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
 },
 "verification": {
  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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   {
    "text": "Come hither, all sweet maidens soberly,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Down-looking aye, and with a chasten’d light",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hid in the fringes of your eyelids white,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And meekly let your fair hands joined be,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As if so gentle that ye could not see,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Untouch’d, a victim of your beauty bright,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sinking away to his young spirit’s night,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sinking bewilder’d ’mid the dreary sea:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "’Tis young Leander toiling to his death;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nigh swooning, he doth purse his weary lips",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For Hero’s cheek, and smiles against her smile.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O horrid dream! see how his body dips",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Dead-heavy; arms and shoulders gleam awhile:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He’s gone; up bubbles all his amorous breath!",
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