Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, JOHN KEATS (1), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON


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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


'WHO kill'd John Keats?'
'I,' says the Quarterly,
So savage and Tartarly;
''T was one of my feats.'

'Who shot the arrow?'
'The poet-priest Milman
(So ready to kill man),
Or Southey or Barrow!'





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