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 EARLY POEMS

this group are included the contents of the volume Poems by John Keats, published in March, 1817, as well as certain poems composed before the publication of Endymion. The order followed is as nearly chronological as the evidence permits.

IMITATION OF SPENSER

ON DEATH

death be sleep, when life is but a dream,

And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?