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Sitting with John by a fish-filled, butterfly-haunted pool before the day's workshops begin 🐟🦋

"His heart beat awfully against his side;
And to his heart he inwardly did pray
For power to speak; but still the ruddy tide
Stifled his voice, and puls'd resolve away-
Fever'd his high conceit of such a bride,
Yet brought him to meekness of a child:
Alas! when passion is both meek and wild!"

I love this detail from Millais' painting of a scene from Keats' "Isabella, or the Pot of Basil". Lorenzo is so intense, and Isabella is willing him to ??

I cannot begin to express the feeling of unbounded joy that leaped within my chest when I discovered this cheaply produced, but much loved, little volume of Keats' poetry which I thought I'd lost and have just discovered in a forgotten pocket of a rucksack. It's seen me through some times, good and bad, and I'm surprised (not-surprised) at my intensity of feeling! ❤📖❤