"Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop From……" — John Keats
"Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop From low hung branches; little space they stop; But sip, and twitter, and their feathers sleek; Then off at once, as in a wanton freak: Or perhaps, to show their black, and golden wings Pausing upon their yellow flutterings."
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John Keats
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327 Quotes by John Keats
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A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.
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Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the minds of men.
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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.
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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
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