John Keats, Sonnet: Why did I laugh to-night?

Verse, Fame and beauty are intense indeed, But Death intenser – Death is life's high mead.

— John Keats on Death

What It Means

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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.