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 "id": "john-keats/on-receiving-a-curious-shell-and-a-copy-of-verses-from-the-same-ladies",
 "title": "On Receiving a Curious Shell and a Copy of Verses from the Same Ladies",
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 "poet": "John Keats",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poems",
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  "year": 1817,
  "venue": "Poems (1817)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "Hast thou from the caves of Golconda, a gem",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Pure as the ice-drop that froze on the mountain?",
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   {
    "text": "Bright as the humming-bird’s green diadem,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When it flutters in sunbeams that shine through a fountain?",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Hast thou a goblet for dark sparkling wine?",
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   {
    "text": "That goblet right heavy, and massy, and gold?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And splendidly mark’d with the story divine",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of Armida the fair, and Rinaldo the bold?",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Hast thou a steed with a mane richly flowing?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hast thou a sword that thine enemy’s smart is?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hast thou a trumpet rich melodies blowing?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And wear’st thou the shield of the fam’d Britomartis?",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "What is it that hangs from thy shoulder, so brave,",
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   {
    "text": "Embroidered with many a spring peering flower?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is it a scarf that thy fair lady gave?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And hastest thou now to that fair lady’s bower?",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Ah! courteous Sir Knight, with large joy thou art crown’d;",
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   {
    "text": "Full many the glories that brighten thy youth!",
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   {
    "text": "I will tell thee my blisses, which richly abound",
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   {
    "text": "In magical powers to bless, and to soothe.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "On this scroll thou seest written in characters fair",
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   {
    "text": "A sun-beamy tale of a wreath, and a chain:",
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   {
    "text": "And, warrior, it nurtures the property rare",
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   {
    "text": "Of charming my mind from the trammels of pain.",
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   {
    "text": "This canopy mark: ’tis the work of a fay;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Beneath its rich shade did King Oberon languish,",
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   {
    "text": "When lovely Titania was far, far away,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And cruelly left him to sorrow, and anguish.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "There, oft would he bring from his soft-sighing lute",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Wild strains to which, spell-bound, the nightingales listen’d;",
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   {
    "text": "The wondering spirits of heaven were mute,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And tears ’mong the dewdrops of morning oft glistened.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "In this little dome, all those melodies strange,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Soft, plaintive, and melting, for ever will sigh;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor e’er will the notes from their tenderness change;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor e’er will the music of Oberon die.",
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   {
    "text": "So, when I am in a voluptuous vein,",
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   {
    "text": "I pillow my head on the sweets of the rose,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And list to the tale of the wreath, and the chain,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Till its echoes depart; then I sink to repose.",
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   {
    "text": "Adieu, valiant Eric! with joy thou art crown’d;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Full many the glories that brighten thy youth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I too have my blisses, which richly abound",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In magical powers, to bless and to soothe.",
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