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Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose
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“Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose”

John Keats

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Ode on Melancholy
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1820
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Meaning of “Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose”

The poem directs sorrow toward something vividly beautiful and temporary, bringing grief into contact with immediate sensory life instead of treating beauty and sadness as opposites.

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“Ode on Melancholy,” in Keats: Poems Published in 1820; Project Gutenberg #23684. This is Romantic poetic imagery and not mental-health treatment advice.

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