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First Line: The day I walk there the sun %lies down in the streets of rome and presses
Last Line: Breaking is always the same sound
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets


A DITTY OF NO TONE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Would that my lips might pour
Last Line: A crown of mingled song and bloom for thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers


A ROOM IN ROME, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The water-poet lay down with flowers
Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Keats, John (1795-1821)


A SONNET TO JOHN KEATS, by IRVINE GODDARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: From birds that pour their liquid notes of song
Last Line: Before, so seemed the life of keats when spent.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Yale University


A TRENTA-SEI OF THE PLEASURE WE TAKE .. EARLY DEATH OF KEATS, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is old school custom to pretent to be sad
Last Line: The saddest music keeps the sweetest time
Subject(s): Customs, Social; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


ADONAIS; AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I weep for adonais -- he is dead
Last Line: Beacons from the abode where the eternal are.
Variant Title(s): Adonais
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Death; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Dead, The


AFTER A LECTURE ON KEATS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wreath that star-crowned shelley gave
Last Line: Shall lie upon that roman grave!
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


AN ECHO, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Keats! Keats!
Last Line: His brother-bird.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Birds; Echoes; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Thrushes


ANSWER TO A KIND ENQUIRY, by MARY HOLTBY    Poem Text                    
First Line: O, what can ail thee, knight at arms
Last Line: And feel so sick.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Knights & Knighthood; Poetry & Poets


AT A HOUSE IN HAMPSTEAD, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O poet, come you haunting here
Last Line: Passed to the dim.
Subject(s): Hampstead Heath, London; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


AT KEAT'S GRAVE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I feel the flowers growing over me
Last Line: They weave around thee one perpetual spring.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Graves; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones


AT LULWORTH COVE A CENTURY BACK, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Had I but lived a hundred years ago
Last Line: And bend with reverence where his ashes lie.'
Subject(s): Dorset, England; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


AT THE GRAVE OF KEATS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Long, long ago, in the sweet roman spring
Last Line: Whose perfume lives to-day.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


BORED TO CHORESIS, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Inert and in the twilight ... Peace is not hers
Last Line: Choreographic and polynesian.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): Boredom; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Ennui


BRIDE OF QUIETNESS, by KELLY CHERRY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My [sculptor] husband, when he was my husband, possessed
Last Line: Forever, when I cradle his cold ashes in this urn
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights


BRIGHT STAR, WOULD I WERE STEADFAST AS THOU ART, by HILDEGARDE FLANNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In blazing roosts of icy time
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets


CLOVER, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear uplands, chester's favorite fields
Last Line: West chester, pa., summer of 1876.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


CONSTABLE CLOUDS, FOR KEAT'S, by STANLEY PLUMLY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: They come in off the sea peaceable masters
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Clouds


DIVERSIONS OF THE RE-ECHO CLUB, by CAROLYN WELLS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hence, vain, deluding cows
Last Line: Than to be one, anyhow.
Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Cows; Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Keats, John (1795-1821); Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Poetry & Poets; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)


EATS LAKE, by STEPHEN RODEFER    Poem Source                    
First Line: This living hand, now warm and capable, I hold it toward you
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets


ELLEN, IF KEATS, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ellen, when we walked in that turquoise night
Last Line: To gorgeous torsos, statues warmly cold!
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


EPITAPH ON JOHN KEATS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Some poets die consumed by love
Last Line: To stop his craving after sweets.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


EPITAPH: FOR JOHN KEATS, APOSTLE OF BEAUTY, by COUNTEE CULLEN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not writ in water nor in mist
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


EPITAPH: FOR JOHN KEATS, APOSTLE OF BEAUTY, by COUNTEE CULLEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not writ in water nor in mist
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets


FLIGHT, by PETER HUGGINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Keats knew birds. From his room
Last Line: An airshow in texas, somewhere %east of san angelo. I think %keats would have liked that too
Subject(s): Birds; Flight; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets


FOR A COPY OF KEATS'S POEMS, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: You taught my eager heart to understand
Last Line: All his, remembering this gift from you.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


FOR KEATS, by IRENE SUTTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whenever I think of you now I think of a garden
Last Line: All day, all youth's long long day
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


FOR KEATS, AFTER KEATS: 3., by COREY MARKS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Were I that child, perhaps I would have laced
Last Line: Don't write. Don't write again
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets


FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF JOHN KEATS' DEATH, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At midnight when the moonlit cypress trees
Last Line: With visions of the sunny earth and sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


FOR THE CENTENARY OF KEATS'S SONNET, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I knew a scientist, an engineer
Last Line: Much have I travelled in the realms of gold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


HILLS ABOVE HALF MOON BAY, by SUSAN WOOD    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Often, those first mornings, pale disc
Last Line: Had begun, and nothing you would do could make it stop
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


IN AN AUCTION ROOM, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How about this lot? Said the auctioneer
Last Line: Sold for eight hundred dollars -- doctor r.!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Auctions; Brawne, Fanny; Keats, John (1795-1821); Letters; Poetry & Poets; Rosenbach, Abraham Simon (1876-1952)


JOHN KEATS, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pontifical, that night in alien rome
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets


JOHN KEATS, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The weltering london ways where children weep
Last Line: Along time's flood goes echoing evermore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


JOHN KEATS (1), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who kill'd john keats?
Last Line: Or southey or barrow!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Hate; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


JOHN KEATS (2), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: John keats, who was killed off by one critique
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets


KEATS, by ELSA BARKER    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hyperion of poets...Shining one
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821)


KEATS, by ARTHUR STANLEY BOURINOT    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Immortal bard of beauty, thou, whose pen
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821)


KEATS, by GEOFFREY DEARMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Touch me, o lord, and let my sonnet ring
Last Line: As now he sings. Boy of the glowing brain, %dear keats your name is paradise to me!
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets


KEATS, by STUART LIVINGSTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: A young-eyed seer, amid the leafy ways
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets


KEATS, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the wall that belts the town
Last Line: It heaves its billows over earth!
Subject(s): Graves; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones


KEATS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon thy tomb 'tis graven, 'here lies one
Last Line: Thy name, a deathless syllable, remains.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


KEATS, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The melancholy gift aurora gained
Last Line: Become the poet of immortal youth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


KEATS (1), by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An english lad, who, reading in a book
Last Line: But he rose up and knew himself a greek.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


KEATS (1821-1921), by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When sometimes, on a moony night, I've passed
Last Line: Perfectly happy ... Talking about keats.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


KEATS (2), by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fluting and singing, with young locks aflow
Last Line: And they that mocked him, yea, they too are dead.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


KEATS (3), by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though bitter weathers empty boughs of tune
Last Line: Floods two worlds with his song.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


KEATS - SAPPHO, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Methinks, when first the nightingale
Last Line: The pantings of her heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.)


KEATS AND COLERIDGE, by GERALD BURNS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Diction is still the problem. You imagine it's this: a poem makes a 'little ...
Last Line: The last of this in the men's room and got urine on my trousers
Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets


KEATS AT HIGHGATE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A cheerful youth joined coleridge on his walk
Last Line: Perhaps not well-dressed but oh no not loose
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets


KEATS IN CALIFORNIA, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wisterai has come and gone, the plum trees
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); California


KEATS TO FANNY BRAWNE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fanny! If in your arms my soul could slip
Last Line: Who once desired you, but desire no more!
Subject(s): Brawne, Fanny; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


KEATS TOOK SNUFF', by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: So 'keats took snuff?' a few more years
Last Line: "somewhere, if ever ghosts be gruff, / I trust some keats will 'give you snuff'"
Subject(s): "keats, John (1795-1821);poetry & Poets;snuff (tobacco);


KEATS WAS AN UNBELIEVER, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Keats was an unbeliever,' - so they read
Last Line: "he made ""believing"" possible for us."
Subject(s): Agnosticism; Beauty; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Religion; Theology


KEATS' GRAVE IN ROME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though thou liest prone and mute
Last Line: Draw our hearts unto thy grave!
Subject(s): Flowers; Graves; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Summer; Trees; Tombs; Tombstones


KEATS' LIPS, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the death mask by gherardi
Last Line: Toward the gables and red tiles, %then vanished above the rooftops
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets


KEATS, BEFORE ACTION, by GEOFFREY DEARMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A little moment more - o, let me hear
Last Line: Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all, %the very all in all
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets; Soldiers' Writings; World War I


KEATS; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The young endymion sleeps endymion's sleep
Last Line: "was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed."
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


KUMQUAT FOR JOHN KEATS, by TONY HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today I found the right fruit for my prime
Last Line: From mr. Fowler sharpening farmers' saws
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets


LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI OFFERS HER VERSION, by D. A. PRINCE    Poem Source                    
First Line: So what! Bewailing last night's charms
Last Line: This will bring your colour back %an aspirin
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights


LAMIA TO LYCIUS, by ANNIE FINCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you here me, lycius? Do you hear these dreams
Last Line: Till every human word you say is clear
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights


LYCAMBES TALKS TO JOHN (IN HELL), by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why that wild poet came to me to damn me
Last Line: Ethereal passion: I know it by your laughter
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): Archilochus (7th Century B.c.); Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets


MEREDITH NICHOLSON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Keats, and kirk white, david
Last Line: Young yet in art, and his heart yet a boy's.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Muses; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers


MOONLIGHT SONG OF THE MOCKING-BIRD; A QUATRAIN, by WILLIAM HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Each golden note of music greets
Last Line: Had found its new birth in a bird.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Mockingbirds; Poetry & Poets


NEW ODE TO A GRECIAN URN, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas! How sad that simple truth
Last Line: I read the tale of how lhkqion apwlesen!
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Elgin Marbles; Greece; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Greeks


OCTOBER XXIX, 1795 (KEATS' BIRTHDAY), by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time sitting on the throne of memory
Last Line: Because he played with beauty for a toy!'
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


ODE ON A GRECIAN URN SUMMARIZED, by DESMOND SKIRROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gods chase
Last Line: Nice, though
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets


OF MELODIES UNHEARD (TO JOHN KEATS), by MAHLON LEONARD FISHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets


ON A CERTAIN CRITIC, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well, john keats
Last Line: In the bodies of innumerable worms.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Moon; Poetry & Poets


ON A COPY OF KEATS' 'ENDYMION', by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Has not the glamoured season come once more
Last Line: Still thrill the heart, still fill the listening sky!
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


ON A PRESSED FLOWER IN MY CPOY OF KEATS, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As keats' old honeyed volume of romance
Last Line: The while my heart weeps for this dear flower's sake.
Subject(s): Flowers; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


ON FIRST LOOKING THROUGH KRAFFT-EBING'S PSYCHOPATHIA..., by OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Much have I travelled in those realms of old
Last Line: Potent behind a cart with mary ann?
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Obscenity; Poetry & Poets


ON KEATS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A garden in a garden: a green spot
Last Line: Shall be a fountain of love, verily.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


ON KEATS, WHO DESIRED THAT ON HIS TOMB SHOULD BE INSCRIBED:, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lieth one whose name was writ on water!'
Last Line: A scroll of crystal, blazoning the name of adonais!
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


ON READING KEATS IN WAR TIME, by KARL SHAPIRO            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As one long lost in no-man's-land of war
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


ON READING KEATS IN WAR TIME, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As one long lost in no-man's-land of war
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets


ON THE SALE BY AUCTION OF KEATS' LOVE LETTERS, by OSCAR WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These are the letters which endymion wrote
Last Line: Not knowing the god's wonder, or his woe?
Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Letters; Love; Poetry & Poets


POPULARITY, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stand still, true poet that you are!
Last Line: What porridge had john keats?
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


POSTHUMOUS KEATS, by STANLEY PLUMLY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The road is so rough severn is walking,
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821)


READING WITH THE POETS, by STANLEY PLUMLY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whitman among the wounded, at the bedside,
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Whitman, Walt (1819-1891)


ROME. AT THE PYRAMID OF CESTIUS NEAR THE GRAVES OF SHELLEY, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who, then, was cestius / and what is he to me?
Last Line: It is an ample fame.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Rome, Italy; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)


SHELLEY'S CENTENARY, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within a narrow span of time / three princes of the realm of rhyme
Last Line: Smote him and slew.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron


SONNET, by R. A. ERIC SHEPHERD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Well might john keats have wandered up and down
Last Line: To think too closely is to banish him.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Oxford University; Poetry & Poets


SONNET IN MEMORY OF JOHN KEATS (1), by HELEN GRAY CONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Young priest of beauty, dead a hundred years
Alternate Author Name(s): Green, Coroebus
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets


SONNET IN MEMORY OF JOHN KEATS (2), by HELEN GRAY CONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: He figured life a house of mystic rooms
Alternate Author Name(s): Green, Coroebus
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets


SONNET: 5. TO THE SPIRIT OF KEATS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Great soul, thou sittest with me in my room
Last Line: After the moon-led pulse of ocean stops.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


SONNETS: AFTER READING KEATS, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down his great corridors of sumptuous
Last Line: That passionate lover, young endymion!
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers


THE DRUG-SHOP, OR, ENDYMION IN EDMONSTOUN, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Night falls; the great jars glow against the dark
Last Line: She will be fully risen. -- there's his step!
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Keats, John (1795-1821); Anglers


THE GRAVE OF KEATS, by OSCAR WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rid of the world's injustice, and his pain
Last Line: As isabella did her basil-tree.
Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills
Subject(s): Graves; Italy; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones; Italians


THE GRAVE OF KEATS; THE PROTESTANT CEMETERY AT ROME, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair little city
Last Line: Strong wine of fruit mature, whose flowers alone we know.
Subject(s): Graves; Italy; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones; Italians


THE IMMORTAL URN, by ELMER O. LAUGHLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Unwedded bride, immortal shepherdess!
Last Line: Gave life to them and immortality.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


THE LIFE-MASK OF KEATS, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poet to poet gave this mask, of him
Last Line: And with his spirit's gaze saw and was glad.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


THE POETRY OF KEATS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The song of a nightingale sent thro' a slumbrous valley
Last Line: That wins immortality even while panting delirious with death.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


THE VISITATION OF PEACE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I closed the book of verse where sorrow wept
Last Line: Rising see clear the everlasting land.
Subject(s): Death; Depression, Mental; Grief; Keats, John (1795-1821); Love; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Sorrow; Sadness


TIBER, NILE, AND THAMES, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The head and hands of murdered cicero
Last Line: Breadless, with poison froze the god-fired breath?
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770); Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.c.); Cleopatra's Needle (obelisks); Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Keats, John (1795-1821); London; Poetry & Poets; Roman Empire; Rome, Italy


TO A VIOLENT LEAF (FROM THE GRAVE OF KEATS), by FRANCES MOYES    Poem Text                    
First Line: O violet leaf, you fill my eyes with tears!
Last Line: But still the violets you loved abide.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


TO JOHN KEATS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Severn, I feel the flowers o'er me grow,'
Last Line: Greening above you in eternal spring.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Flowers; Funerals; Future Life; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Nightmares; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


TO JOHN KEATS, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis well you think me truly one of those
Last Line: Young keats, a flowering laurel on your brow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


TO JOHN KEATS, POET, AT SPRING TIME, by COUNTEE CULLEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot hold my peace, john keats
Last Line: John keats, keep revel with me, too.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Spring


TO JOHN KEATS; SONNET, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Great master! Boyish, sympathetic man!
Last Line: Faint throbbings of thy music overhear.
Variant Title(s): To John Keats
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


TO JOSEPH SEVERN; FOR THE CENTENARY OF KEATS' DEATH, 26 FEBRUARY 1921, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We who loved keats will never long forget
Last Line: And watched the soul win free from time's eclipse.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Severn, Joseph (1793-1879)


TO JULIA MARLOWE (READING KEATS' ODE ON A GRECIAN URN), by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long had I loved this 'attic shape,'the brede
Last Line: The empty urn was filled with chian wine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Greece; Keats, John (1795-1821); Marlowe, Julia (1866-1950); Poetry & Poets; Greeks


TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN KEATS, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The world, its hopes, and fears, have passed away
Last Line: Thy name with him shall linger, and be dear.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


TRENTA-SEI OF THE PLEASURE WE TAKE .. EARLY DEATH OF KEATS, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is old school custom to pretent to be sad
Last Line: Pale, dying poet, fading as soft as rhyme, %the saddest music keeps the sweetest time
Subject(s): Customs, Social; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets


TROUBLE WITH KEATS, by STODDARD KING    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Keats had his faults, as may be learned
Last Line: But don his proud through battered kelly %and split a quart with percy shelley
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets


WITH A COPY OF KEATS, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like listless lullabies of sail-swept seas
Last Line: His lyric argosy!
Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets


WRITTEN IN KEATS' 'ENDYMION', by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw pale dian, sitting by the brink
Last Line: Gave back endymion in a dreamlike tale.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets