Ode to a Nightingale
[[File:W. J. Neatby - Keats - Nightingale.jpg|thumb|right|W. J. Neatbyes biliþ for ''Ode to a Nightingale'']]

'''"Ode to a Nightingale"''' ('''Lēoþ Nihtegalan''' on Englisce) is lēoþ þe [[John Keats]] on Þrimilcemōnþe [[1819]] wrāt, in þǣm gearde þæs Spaniards Inn, [[Hāmstede]], [[Lunden]]. Cwæþ Keates frēond, Charles Armitage Brown, nihtegale betimbrode nēah his hām his nest, on ēostre 1819. Þurhblāwen þȳ briddes songe, Keats wrāt þæt lēoþ in ānum dæge. Hit sōna wearþ ān his 1819 ōdelēoðum and man hīe ǣrost cȳðde in ''Annals of the Fine Arts'' þǣm ōðrum Mǣdmōnðe. "Ode to a Nightingale" is selflīc lēoþ þe Keatses forþweg āmearcaþ intō [[ungewisses andfang|ungewisses andfenges]] hāda.

<!-- The tone of the poem rejects the optimistic pursuit of pleasure found within Keats's earlier poems, and it explores the themes of nature, transience and mortality, the latter being particularly personal to Keats. -->

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"Ode to a Nightingale" (Lēoþ Nihtegalan on Englisce) is lēoþ þe John Keats on Þrimilcemōnþe 1819 wrāt, in þǣm gearde þæs Spaniards Inn, Hāmstede, Lunden. Cwæþ Keates frēond, Charles Armitage Brown, nihtegale betimbrode nēah his hām his nest, on ēostre 1819. Þurhblāwen þȳ briddes songe, Keats wrāt þæt lēoþ in ānum dæge. Hit sōna wearþ ān his 1819 ōdelēoðum and man hīe ǣrost cȳðde in Annals of the Fine Arts þǣm ōðrum Mǣdmōnðe. "Ode to a Nightingale" is selflīc lēoþ þe Keatses forþweg āmearcaþ intō ungewisses andfenges hāda.

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