I

by John Keats · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of Isabella, or the Pot of Basil

Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel!

      Lorenzo, a young palmer in Love's eye!

They could not in the self-same mansion dwell

      Without some stir of heart, some malady;

They could not sit at meals but feel how well

      It soothed each to be the other by;

They could not, sure, beneath the same roof sleep

But to each other dream, and nightly weep.

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