ISABELLA, OR, THE POT OF BASIL
1816
ISABELLA; OR, THE POT OF BASIL
by John Keats
ISABELLA
A Story from Boccaccio
I.
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
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