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The Eve of St. Agnes

John Keats

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1820
Pages
Pages 15

On a freezing saint's night, when girls are told they may dream of their future husbands, a young lover slips into an enemy house and spirits his dreaming girl away into the storm.

And still she slept an azure-lidded sleep, in blanched linen, smooth, and lavender'd.
The Eve of St. Agnes, John Keats

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