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Ode to a Nightingale

John Keats

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1819
Pages
Pages 2

Heartsick and half in love with death, a poet pours himself after a nightingale's song into the dark garden, almost leaves the world with it, and is tolled back to himself.

Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!
Ode to a Nightingale, John Keats

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