My spirit is too weak — mortality Weighs heavily on me like… - John Keats

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My spirit is too weak — mortality
Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep,
And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep
Of godlike hardship tells me I must die
Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.

John Keats

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John Keats (October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821) was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement.

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