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 "title": "Sonnet",
 "ordinal": null,
 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "John Keats",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poetry",
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1876,
  "venue": "The Poetical Works of John Keats, Aldine Edition (London, George Bell and Sons, 1876)",
  "note": "The sonnet beginning “As from the darkening gloom a silver dove”, printed there under the heading SONNET among the Early Sonnets and dated 1816 beneath the text; read here in the scan of that edition, whose title page reads “THE ALDINE EDITION … THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN KEATS … GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET … 1876”. Marked uncertain because 1876 is the earliest printing this corpus has located rather than one an authority calls the first: the sonnet is absent from the two volumes of Milnes’s 1848 edition read here, and the Cambridge Edition of 1899 says only that it “appears in the Aldine edition of 1876”.",
  "uncertain": true,
  "sources": [
   "https://archive.org/details/bib_fict_1432767",
   "https://archive.org/details/completepoetical0000keat"
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  "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"
 },
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   {
    "text": "As from the darkening gloom a silver dove",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Upsoars, and darts into the eastern light,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "On pinions that nought moves but pure delight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So fled thy soul into the realms above,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Regions of peace and everlasting love;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where happy spirits, crown’d with circlets bright",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of starry beam, and gloriously bedight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Taste the high joy none but the blest can prove.",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "There thou or joinest the immortal quire",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In melodies that even heaven fair",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Fill with superior bliss, or, at desire,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of the omnipotent Father, cleav’st the air",
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   },
   {
    "text": "On holy message sent⁠—What pleasure’s higher?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Wherefore does any grief our joy impair?",
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