John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale" (wr. 1819; pub. 1820)

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains   My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains   One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:

— John Keats on Conium

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains   My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains   One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:" in the context of "John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale" (wr. 1819; pub. 1820)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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John Keats

About John Keats

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