Love
"Oh, I am frighten'd with most hateful thoughts!"
From Posthumous and Fugitive Poems
Love
Oh, I am frighten'd with most hateful thoughts!
Perhaps her voice is not a nightingale's,
Perhaps her teeth are not the fairest pearl;
Her eye-lashes may be, for aught I know,
Not longer than the May-fly's small fan-horns;
There may not be one dimple on her hand ;
And freckles many; ah! a careless nurse,
In haste to teach the little thing to walk,
May have crumpt up a pair of Dian's legs,
And warpt the ivory of a Juno's neck.
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MLA
Keats, John. “"Oh, I am frighten'd with most hateful thoughts!".” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/keats/91/.
Chicago
Keats, John. “"Oh, I am frighten'd with most hateful thoughts!".” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/keats/91/.
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