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Quotation from Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats
“That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd, A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.”
Ode on a Grecian Urn, Stanza 3, lines 29-30 (1820 text)
Human passion, unlike the urn's, ends in satiety and in symptoms like those of fever.
Citation: "That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd, A burning forehead, and a parching tongue." — John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Stanza 3, lines 29-30 (1820 text). (id ode-on-a-grecian-urn-q5)
Portrait: Keats urn, John Keats, Public domain.
