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O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?


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Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.



And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.



Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

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This page presents the quote "O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?". Author of this quote is John Keats. This quote is about sorrow, may, merriment, lightness, heart,.