- She sigh'd for Agnes' dreams, the sweetest of the year. She danc'd along with vague, regardless eyes, Anxious her lips, her breathing quick and short
- A highly erotic poem, written in Spenserian stanzas, The Eve of St. Agnes has become one of Keats’s most popular works.
- John Keats’ narrative poem, “The Eve of St. Agnes,” is a rich tapestry of emotions and events set against the backdrop of a medieval romance.
- The two are able to make it out of the home without arousing suspicion and ‘The Eve of St. Agnes’ concludes with two characters, Angela, and the Beadsman...
- St. Agnes' Eve—Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass...
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- Eve of St Agnes, John Everett Millais c. 1863. The Eve of St. Agnes is a Romantic narrative poem of 42 Spenserian stanzas set in the Middle Ages.
- MEanwhile the hainous and despightfull act Of Satan done in Paradise, and how Hee in the Serpent, had perverted Eve, Her Husband shee, to taste the fatall fruit...
- They told her how, upon St. Agnes’ Eve, Young virgins might have visions of delight, And soft adorings from their loves receive Upon the honey’d middle of the night...
- For aye unsought for slept among his ashes cold. If you enjoyed ‘The Eve of St. Agnes’, you might also enjoy Keats’s ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’.
