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 "id": "john-keats/on-the-sea",
 "title": "On the Sea",
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 "poet": "John Keats",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats",
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1817,
  "venue": "The Champion (17 August 1817)",
  "note": "Sent to J. H. Reynolds in a letter of 17 April 1817 and printed in The Champion of 17 August the same year. Reprinted in Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats (1848). The claim is the headnote to this poem in The Complete Poetical Works of John Keats, Cambridge Edition (Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1899). No copy of that number of The Champion has been read here.",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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   {
    "text": "It keeps eternal whisperings around",
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   {
    "text": "Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Gluts twice ten thousand caverns, till the spell",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Often ’tis in such gentle temper found,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That scarcely will the very smallest shell",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Be mov’d for days from where it sometime fell,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When last the winds of Heaven were unbound.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O ye! who have your eyeballs vex’d and tir’d,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Feast them upon the wideness of the Sea;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O ye! whose ears are dinn’d with uproar rude,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or fed too much with cloying melody,—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sit ye near some old cavern’s mouth, and brood",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Until ye start, as if the sea-nymphs quired!",
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