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A short story inspired by the poem “Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats.
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My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains 212Please respect copyright.PENANA1mjcLm5zOe
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, 212Please respect copyright.PENANAEDMk9bsSs2
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains 212Please respect copyright.PENANA9ScoUcYz4j
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 212Please respect copyright.PENANADoXK2vRfx7
'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, 212Please respect copyright.PENANABB6ADMmNUN
But being too happy in thine happiness,— 212Please respect copyright.PENANAClIlTw0iYc
That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees 212Please respect copyright.PENANAcaJBn0UnWR
In some melodious plot 212Please respect copyright.PENANA5JQ3XXWdbX
Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, 212Please respect copyright.PENANAldupya1uy2
Singest of summer in full-throated ease. 212Please respect copyright.PENANAvB3KUSpYGY
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O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been 212Please respect copyright.PENANA0R0ul6u6j9
Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth, 212Please respect copyright.PENANALiNfn0wHeT
Tasting of Flora and the country green, 212Please respect copyright.PENANArXCb1rGD0x
Dance, and Provençal song, and sunburnt mirth! 212Please respect copyright.PENANAjBC06Ddc6I
O for a beaker full of the warm South, 212Please respect copyright.PENANACUjIBcRGIX
Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, 212Please respect copyright.PENANAHEwlCJ7JzC
With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, 212Please respect copyright.PENANAP7iEaBegge
And purple-stained mouth; 212Please respect copyright.PENANAWfr7GiJHnL
That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, 212Please respect copyright.PENANAQWeiRn2dNI
And with thee fade away into the forest dim: 212Please respect copyright.PENANAlBYx0vblyU
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Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget 212Please respect copyright.PENANA3S3acTjjgn
What thou among the leaves hast never known, 212Please respect copyright.PENANA15tgrNoht4
The weariness, the fever, and the fret 212Please respect copyright.PENANAEdaSRHpmtV
Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; 212Please respect copyright.PENANAm8Ux26tLmJ
Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs, 212Please respect copyright.PENANAWqnDAtHvu6
Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies; 212Please respect copyright.PENANA4upt2WMPdy
Where but to think is to be full of sorrow 212Please respect copyright.PENANAtFaExamO7X
And leaden-eyed despairs, 212Please respect copyright.PENANAVioT4N4hqW
Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, 212Please respect copyright.PENANA49l8T3cPqV
Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow. 212Please respect copyright.PENANAGlThx7zwWi
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Away! away! for I will fly to thee, 212Please respect copyright.PENANAslydin42YC
Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, 212Please respect copyright.PENANAH2w6y1XO5F
But on the viewless wings of Poesy, 212Please respect copyright.PENANAyqB4HsP4Cl
Though the dull brain perplexes and retards: 212Please respect copyright.PENANAZy0FvuaubP
Already with thee! tender is the night, 212Please respect copyright.PENANAkl93W5wBhf
And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, 212Please respect copyright.PENANAlKqKd6jCdo
Cluster'd around by all her starry Fays; 212Please respect copyright.PENANAkFvSUQhEJE
But here there is no light, 212Please respect copyright.PENANArZvKR5RzFd
Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown 212Please respect copyright.PENANAnEKyXqeyUg
Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways. 212Please respect copyright.PENANABLe0a18v2A
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I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, 212Please respect copyright.PENANANWZws2MDgH
Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, 212Please respect copyright.PENANA5yk5pBCjta
But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet 212Please respect copyright.PENANAndRKPm7f0E
Wherewith the seasonable month endows 212Please respect copyright.PENANAsVugd96lYY
The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild; 212Please respect copyright.PENANAhXOi2r6r2P
White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine; 212Please respect copyright.PENANAtqkkD7bv6R
Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves; 212Please respect copyright.PENANA8sIsSss6jd
And mid-May's eldest child, 212Please respect copyright.PENANAax7NRCbNOE
The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, 212Please respect copyright.PENANA5kzyGa8E3W
The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. 212Please respect copyright.PENANAwL1rvDzPUc
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Darkling I listen; and, for many a time 212Please respect copyright.PENANAqi2GfnpzDk
I have been half in love with easeful Death, 212Please respect copyright.PENANAva87We0mCl
Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, 212Please respect copyright.PENANA9U27rVMVEl
To take into the air my quiet breath; 212Please respect copyright.PENANAU5Kq7ISWGF
Now more than ever seems it rich to die, 212Please respect copyright.PENANAxUtaXsyGwh
To cease upon the midnight with no pain, 212Please respect copyright.PENANAgyX7ni99RE
While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad 212Please respect copyright.PENANAi4E3LYHkOb
In such an ecstasy! 212Please respect copyright.PENANA50sZMuzRbB
Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain— 212Please respect copyright.PENANAgJF7UFDAgy
To thy high requiem become a sod. 212Please respect copyright.PENANA4JdbO5FnWH
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Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! 212Please respect copyright.PENANAAwIJYwETr3
No hungry generations tread thee down; 212Please respect copyright.PENANAGo1Vxj8D4v
The voice I hear this passing night was heard 212Please respect copyright.PENANAoGnu9ocq0f
In ancient days by emperor and clown: 212Please respect copyright.PENANAgaDF6XlTpk
Perhaps the self-same song that found a path 212Please respect copyright.PENANAVCDEMTbD6s
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, 212Please respect copyright.PENANAsoyKLv4qoc
She stood in tears amid the alien corn; 212Please respect copyright.PENANAcrXMKH20Kf
The same that oft-times hath 212Please respect copyright.PENANABXt6AblMjV
Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam 212Please respect copyright.PENANAj6p0EQu058
Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. 212Please respect copyright.PENANARrAA2gsD9c
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Forlorn! the very word is like a bell 212Please respect copyright.PENANAONmNfHO9Tj
To toll me back from thee to my sole self! 212Please respect copyright.PENANAEy7KEJkG7b
Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well 212Please respect copyright.PENANAbDssCWZjzj
As she is fam'd to do, deceiving elf. 212Please respect copyright.PENANACg8W95JIz2
Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades 212Please respect copyright.PENANARxJF9cz5Gb
Past the near meadows, over the still stream, 212Please respect copyright.PENANAmKQsdzzAmu
Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep 212Please respect copyright.PENANAuEGstkAMZt
In the next valley-glades: 212Please respect copyright.PENANAMtdhEYfOyx
Was it a vision, or a waking dream? 212Please respect copyright.PENANATwc6ySPL2x
Fled is that music:—Do I wake or sleep?
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