Modern Love
John Keats
1795 to 1821
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And what is love? It is a doll dress’d ______
For idleness to cosset, nurse, and dandle;
A thing ______ soft misnomers, so divine
That silly youth doth think ______ make itself
Divine by loving, and so goes on
______ and doting a whole summer long,
Till Miss’s comb ______ made a pearl tiara,
And common Wellingtons turn Romeo boots;
Then Cleopatra lives at number seven,
And Antony resides ______ Brunswick Square.
Fools! if some passions high have warm’d ______ world,
If Queens and Soldiers have play’d deep for hearts,
It is no reason why such agonies
Should be ______ common than the growth of weeds.
Fools! make me ______ again that weighty pearl
The Queen of Egypt melted, ______ I’ll say
That ye may love in spite of ______ hats.