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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Keyword: john keats Matches Found: 259 A DRAUGHT OF SUNSHINE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hence burgundy, claret, and port Last Line: More unalarm'd! A DREAM, AFTER READING DANTE'S EPISODE OF PAULO & FRANCESCA, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As hermes once took to his feathers light Last Line: I floated with, about that melancholy storm. Variant Title(s): Sonnet: On A Dream Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) A GALLOWAY SONG, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Ken ye what I met the day Last Line: Sad tears am shedding. A PARTY OF LOVERS, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes Last Line: He lives in wapping, might live where he pleased. A PROPHECY: TO GEORGE KEATS IN AMERICA, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the witching hour of night Last Line: A poet now or never! A SONG ABOUT MY SELF, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a naughty boy Last Line: And he wonder'd. Variant Title(s): The Naughty Boy;there Was A Naughty Boy (from A Letter To Fanny Keats) A SONG OF OPPOSITES, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome joy, and welcome sorrow Last Line: And my couch a low grass-tomb. Variant Title(s): Fragment: Welcome Joy, And Welcome Sorrow 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 ACROSTIC; GEORGIANA AUGUSTA KEATS, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me your patience sister while I frame Last Line: Sons, daughters and a home like honied hive. Subject(s): Sisters ADONAIS; AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation 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 ADVICE FROM JOHN KEATS, by RICHARD MOORE Poem Source First Line: With all thy heart and skill Last Line: Which is to say, shakespeare AFTER DARK VAPOURS, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Spring AGAIN, JOHN KEATS, OR THE POST OF BASIL, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Just when I was getting completely through Last Line: Between a window and a wall again ALL THESE ARE VILE', by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The house of mourning written by mr. Scott Last Line: All these are vile. But viler wordsworth's sonnet %on dover.Dover! Who could write upon it? Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) AN EXTEMPORE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When they were come into the faery's court Last Line: Brown is gone to bed--and I am tired of rhyming... APOLLO AND THE GRACES, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Which of the fairest three Last Line: Thro' the golden day will sing. AUCTION: ANDERSON GALLERIES, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lot 65: john keats to fanny brawne Last Line: "sold to this party for nine sixty five." Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Auctions AY, IF A MADMAN COULD HAVE LEAVE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Physicians BALBOA REPLIES TO JOHN KEATS, by TOM RILEY Poem Source First Line: Your kind of travel is the easy kind BEN NEVIS (A DIALOGUE), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon my life sir nevis I am pique'd Last Line: That fainting fit was not delayed too late. Subject(s): Ben Nevis (mountain), Scotland BIRTH OF THE BLUES, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: John keats never read dylan thomas or yeats Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Time BIRTH OF THE BLUES, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: John keats never read dylan thomas or yeats Last Line: I know he is there. Listen. This is the time. %or she is. Lord. Lord. I feel like herod BLUEBELL: CONSTANCY, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A filbert hedgr with wild briar overtwined Last Line: From their fresh beds, and scattered thoughtlessly %by infant hands, left on the path to die Subject(s): Flowers CALIDORE; A FRAGMENT, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young calidore is paddling o'er the lake Last Line: Sweet be their sleep. * * * * * * * * * CLERIHEWS, by R. A. SIMONE Poem Source First Line: John keats %as a child loved big teats Last Line: And never learned to swim %unfortunately for him COELUS TO HYPERION, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O brightest of my children dear COLLOQUY WITH JOHN KEATS, by JAMES PHILIP MCAULEY Poem Source First Line: I have been bitter with you, my brother Last Line: Pealed that great bourdon which men have ignored CYNTHIA'S BRIDAL EVENING, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The evening weather was so bright and DAWLISH FAIR, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the hill and over the dale Last Line: And make the wild fern for a bed do. DECEMBER, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a drear-nighted december Last Line: Was never said in rhyme. Variant Title(s): Happy Insensibility;stanzas Subject(s): December; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness DIANA AND ENDYMION, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Queen of the wide air, thou most lovely queen ENDYMION, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Last Line: Upon the forehead of humanity ENDYMION, A POETIC ROMANCE: BOOK 1, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A thing of beauty is a joy forever Last Line: They stept into the boat, and launch'd from land. ENDYMION, A POETIC ROMANCE: BOOK 2, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! Last Line: He saw the giant sea above his head. ENDYMION, A POETIC ROMANCE: BOOK 3, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men Last Line: How happy once again in grassy nest! ENDYMION, A POETIC ROMANCE: BOOK 4, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Muse of my native land! Loftiest muse! Last Line: Home through the gloomy wood in wonderment. EPISTLE TO CHARLES COWDEN CLARKE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft have you seen a swan superbly frowning Last Line: September, . Subject(s): Clarke, Charles Cowden (1787-1877) EPISTLE TO GEORGE FELTON MATHEW, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong Last Line: November, . EPISTLE TO GEORGE KEATS, SELS., by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, my dear friend and brother EPISTLE TO J. H. REYNOLDS, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is a flaw Last Line: Ravening a worm EPISTLE TO JOHN HAMILTON REYNOLDS, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear reynolds! As last night I lay in bed Last Line: Than with these horrid moods be left I' the lurch. Variant Title(s): To J. H. Reynolds, Esq. EPISTLE TO MY BROTHER GEORGE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full many a dreary hour have I past Last Line: August, . EPISTLE TO REYNOLDS, SELS., by JOHN KEATS Poet's Biography EPITAPH, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies one whose name was writ in water EPITAPH ON JOHN KEATS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text 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 Text 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's Biography First Line: Not writ in water nor in mist Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets EXTRACTS FROM AN OPERA: 1., by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O! Were I one of the olumpian twelve Last Line: To melt away upon the traveller's lips. EXTRACTS FROM AN OPERA: 2. DAISY'S SONG, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The sun, with his great eye Last Line: Lambs bleat my lullaby. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Spring EXTRACTS FROM AN OPERA: 3. FOLLY'S SONG, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When wedding fiddles are a-playing Last Line: Huzza, &c. EXTRACTS FROM AN OPERA: 4. SONG, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stranger lighted from his steed Last Line: Again on his fair palfrey. EXTRACTS FROM AN OPERA: 5., by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I am frighten'd with most hateful thoughts Last Line: And warpt the ivory of a juno's neck. FAERY SONG: 1, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shed no tear! O shed no tear! Last Line: Adieu, adieu! Variant Title(s): Fairy's Song FAERY SONG: 2, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Woe is me! Poor silver-wing! Last Line: Alas! Poor queen! FALL OF HYPERION: A DREAM, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Then the tall shade, in drooping linens veiled Last Line: What eyes are upward cast FILL FOR ME A BRIMMING BOWL, by JOHN KEATS Poet's Biography FINGAL'S CAVE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not aladdin magian Last Line: He dived! FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF JOHN KEATS' DEATH, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text 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 FRAGMENT OF AN ODE TO MAIA, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of hermes! And still youthful maia! Last Line: Rich in the simple worship of a day. FRESHEST BREEZE I CAUGHT, FR. EPISTLE TO MY BROTHER, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea FROM FRAGMENT OF THE CASTLE BUILDER, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, convent garden is a monstrous beast Last Line: By following fat elbows up a court GARDEN-DREAM, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Methought I stood where trees of every clime Last Line: The mossy mound and arbour were no more GHAZALS: 5, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yes yes yes it was the year of the tall ships Last Line: But keats' heart, keats in italy, keats' heart %keats how I love thee, I love thee john keats Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim GLAUCUS, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I plunged for life or death. To interknit GOLDFINCHES, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop Subject(s): Birds; Goldfinches HITHER HITHER LOVE, by JOHN KEATS Poet's Biography HOPE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And as, in sparkling majesty, a star Subject(s): Hope HYACINTHUS, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Or they might watch the quoit-pitchers, intent HYMN TO APOLLO, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God of the golden bow Last Line: O delphic apollo! HYPERION, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Last Line: Celestial ---- Variant Title(s): The Fall Of The Titans;saturn Subject(s): Sleep IMITATION OF SPENSER (1), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now morning from her orient chamber came Last Line: Outvieing all the buds in flora's diadem. Variant Title(s): Morning Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) IMITATION OF SPENSER (2), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woman! When I behold thee flippant, vain Last Line: And o'er my eyes the trembling moisture shake. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) ISABELLA, OR THE POT OF BASIL, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair isabel, poor simple isabel! Last Line: "to steal my basil-pot away from me!" ITALY SWEET TOO!, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy is england! I could be content Last Line: And float with them about the summer waters. Variant Title(s): Sonnet Subject(s): England; Italy; English; Italians JOHN KEATS, by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Meet thou the event Subject(s): Death 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 MARK LEVINE Poem Source First Line: Here we were. Here we were Last Line: We send our regrets, burdens and regrets JOHN KEATS, by HILDA MORLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who walked those hills in the springtime Last Line: For the ultimate accuracy Alternate Author Name(s): Auerbach, Hilda; Wolpe, Stefan, Mrs. JOHN KEATS, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text 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, by DAVID SCOTT Poem Source First Line: It's why at certain times Last Line: Turning ice back into breath JOHN KEATS (1), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text 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'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 JOHN KEATS CONSIDERS AN ODE TO IMMORTALITY, by ALAN CATLIN Poem Source First Line: Adonais, I begin, but the words refuse to Last Line: So weary now. If I write again, it will be of %death JOHN KEATS EATS HIS PORRIDGE, by ADRIAN MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: It was hot enough to blister Last Line: This is strange porridge %eat it all up JOHN KEATS LIES AWAKE IN HIS RENTED ROOM AT MARGATE..., by ROBERT COOPERMAN Poem Source First Line: The sea - more varied in its monotony Last Line: But it sticks; an old voice calls, %'join us, if you dar.' JOHN KEATS TAKES HIS LEAVE, by ANNEMARIE EWING Poem Source First Line: I would have preferred to go Last Line: Awkward at making a bow Alternate Author Name(s): Towner, John H., Mrs.; Towner, Annemarie Ewing JOHN KEATS TO FANNY BRAWNE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetest fanny, - you fear sometimes I do not Subject(s): Love JOHN KEATS, 1821-1950, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Keats was miss mckinney's class, 12th grade english Last Line: And how the fierce gnats' wailing was oracular JOHN KEATS, BASEBALL PLAYER, by DAVID GARRISON Poem Source First Line: Have you read that poem by keats JOHN KEATS, SURGEON, by BEN BELITT Poem Source First Line: Is not the level shine of steel JOHN KEATS, SURGEON, by BEN BELITT Poem Source First Line: Surely the level shine of steel Last Line: Wolfsbane? Aloe? Mandrake? Myrrh? %no, no: not these JOHN KEATS, THE MORNING HIS BROTHER TOM DIED, by ROBERT COOPERMAN Poem Source First Line: He passed in his sleep Last Line: Tears bolted to hear finality %in his consoling voice KING STEPHEN; A FRAGMENT OF A TRAGEDY, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If shame can on a soldier's vein-swoll'n front Last Line: Can make his june december. Here he comes. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History KU-RING-GAI ROCK CARVINGS: HANDS, by DAVID WATT IAN CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: An artist blew ruddy ochre to outline his hand Last Line: It takes the mind like john keats' hand KUMQUAT FOR JOHN KEATS, by TONY HARRISON Poem Source 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, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O [or, ah] what can ail thee, knight at arms [or, wretched wight] Last Line: And no birds sing. Subject(s): Fairies; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Love - Loss Of; Magic; Supernatural; Elves LAMIA, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a time, before the faery broods Last Line: And, in its marriage robe, the heavy body wound. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sleep LAST SONNET (ORIGINAL VERSION), by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bright star! Would I were stedfast as thou art! Last Line: Half-passionless, and so swoon on to death Variant Title(s): Bright Star, Would I Were Stedfast As Thou Ar Subject(s): Love; Stars LAST SONNET (REVISED VERSION), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Bright star! Would I were steadfast as thou art Last Line: And so live ever -- or else swoon to death. Variant Title(s): "sonnet Composed On Leaving England;sonnet Written On A Blank Page;sonnet On 'a Lover's Complaint';bright Star;keats's Last Sonnet;""bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art"";sonnet: Bright Star; Subject(s): Desire; Love; Stars LETTER FROM JOHN KEATS TO FANNY BRAWNE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I had not thought to ever taste again Last Line: Good-bye, bright star, good-bye. God bless you, fanny LINES, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unfelt, unheard, unseen Last Line: For all the blushing of the hasty morn. LINES ON SEEING A LOCK OF MILTON'S HAIR, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chief of organic numbers Last Line: I thought I had beheld it from the flood. Subject(s): Consolation; Milton, John (1608-1674) LINES ON THE MERMAID TAVERN, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Souls of poets dead and gone Last Line: Choicer than the mermaid tavern? Variant Title(s): The Mermaid Tavern Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Poetry & Poets; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons LINES TO FANNY, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What can I do to drive away Last Line: To dream of thee! Subject(s): Brawne, Fanny LINES WRITTEN 29 MAY, ANNIVERSARY OF RESTORATION CHARLES II, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Infatuate britons, will you still proclaim Last Line: That pains my wounded ear LINES WRITTEN IN HIGHLANDS AFTER A VISIT TO BURNS'S COUNTRY, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a charm in footing slow across a silent plain Last Line: And keep his vision clear from speck, his inward sight unblind. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets; Scotland LINES WRITTEN IN THE HIGHLANDS, SELS., by JOHN KEATS Poet's Biography MARIGOLD: GRIEF, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Open afresh your round of starry folds Last Line: His mighty voice may come upon the gale Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Trees MAY 3: POEM IN THE MANNER OF JOHN KEATS, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Much have I trampled in fields of grass Last Line: Or cry for her life in dire ruin? MEG MERRILEES, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old meg she was a gipsy Last Line: She died full long agone! Variant Title(s): Old Meg;meg Merrilies Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies MEMORIES OF JOHN KEATS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Watchfulness and sensation as john keats Last Line: You would have known in it MINNOWS, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How silent comes the water round that bend Last Line: And moisture, that the bowery green may live Variant Title(s): From The Bridg Subject(s): Minnows MODERN LOVE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And what is love? It is a doll dress'd up Last Line: That ye may love in spite of beaver hats. Variant Title(s): "and What Is Love? It Is A Doll Dressed Up""; Subject(s): Love MONHEGAN ISLAND, by DAVID BOND Poem Source First Line: Half the ten mile trip seal rock Last Line: Nudged between those of jewel and john keats MOON LIFTING HER SILVER RIM, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography MORE HEALTHFUL THAN THE LEAFINESS OF DALES?, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep MR. JOHN KEATS FIVE FEET TALL SAILS AWAY', by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the maria crowther Last Line: We would each %be diminished NARCISSUS: EGOTISM, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What first inspired a bard of old to sing Last Line: Of young narcissus, and sad echo's bale Subject(s): Flowers NATURE AND THE POETS, SELS., by JOHN KEATS Poet's Biography NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S DREAM; SONNET, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before he went to feed [or, live] with owls and bats Last Line: "by belching out ""ye are that head of gold." Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology NOTES ON WRITERS: THREE CLERIHEWS, by ROBERT SCHAEFFER PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: Handsome john keats %performed many feats Last Line: My dear, I know they're losers; %but buggers can't be choosers.' NUDISM IN AMERICA, by LUCIA MARIA PERILLO Poem Source First Line: Lying in the hammock strung between Last Line: Here, between two of john keats' many thighs O LATEST BORN AND LOVELIEST VISION FAR, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography O SLEEP A LITTLE WHILE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Asleep! O sleep a little while, white pearl! Last Line: My sudden adoration, my great love! Subject(s): Sleep OCEAN, WITH ITS VASTNESS, ITS BLUE GREEN, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea ODE ON A GRECIAN URN, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Thou still unravished bride of quietness Last Line: Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Carpe Diem; Elgin Marbles; Mortality ODE ON INDOLENCE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: One morn before me were three figures seen Last Line: Into the clouds, and never more return! Subject(s): Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence ODE ON MELANCHOLY, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: No, no, go not to lethe, neither twist Last Line: And be among her cloudy trophies hung. Variant Title(s): On Melancholy Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains Last Line: Fled is that music: -- do I wake or sleep? Subject(s): Adversity; Birds; Immortality; Life; Mortality; Nightingales ODE TO APOLLO, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In thy western halls of gold Last Line: From thee, great god of bards, receive their heavenly birth. Subject(s): Dramatists; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Milton, John (1608-1674); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595); Iliad; Odyssey; Dramatists ODE TO FANNY, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Physician nature! Let my spirit blood Last Line: Love! On their lost repose. Subject(s): Brawne, Fanny ODE TO JOHN KEATS, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From a dark land of figs Last Line: Or lurking under a weeping beech ODE TO PSYCHE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O goddess! Hear these tuneless numbers, wrung Last Line: To let the warm love in! Subject(s): Love; Psyche (mythology) ODE [ON THE POETS], by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bards of passion and of mirth Last Line: Double-lived in regions new! Variant Title(s): To The Poets Subject(s): Poetry & 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'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 PICTURE OF LEANDER, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come hither all sweet maidens soberly Last Line: He's gone; up bubbles all his amorous breath! Subject(s): Dardanelles; Hero & Leander; Hellespont; Leander ON DEATH, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream Last Line: His future doom which is but to awake. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Much have I traveled in the realms of gold Last Line: Silent, upon a peak in darien. Variant Title(s): To The Adventurous Subject(s): Books; Chapman, George (1559-1634); Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Thought; Translating & Interpreting; Reading; Iliad; Odyssey; Thinking ON LEAVING SOME FRIENDS AT AN EARLY HOUR, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me a golden pen, and let me lean Last Line: Tis not content so soon to be alone. ON OXFORD, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gothic looks solemn Last Line: Then each on a leg or thigh fastens. Variant Title(s): Lines Rhymed In A Letter From Oxford Subject(s): Oxford University ON RECEIVING A CURIOUS SHELL, AND A COPY OF VERSES, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou from the caves of golconda Last Line: In magical powers, to bless and to sooth. Subject(s): Shells; Conchology ON SEEING THE ELGIN MARBLES, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My spirit is too weak - mortality Last Line: A sun - a shadow of a magnitude. Subject(s): Elgin Marbles; Parthenon; Sculpture & Sculptors ON THE SONNET, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If by dull rhymes our english must be chain'd Last Line: She will be bound with garlands of her own. Variant Title(s): Sonnet (on The Sonnet) Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) ON VISITING THE TOMB OF BURNS, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The town, the churchyard, and the setting sun Last Line: Thy face; I sin against thy native skies. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets ONE DAY THOU WILT BE BLEST, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography ORCHID: A BELLE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I met a lady in the meads Last Line: And sure in language strange she said, %I love thee true Subject(s): Flowers ORIGON OF FABLE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What has made the sage or poet write OTHO THE GREAT, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So, I am safe emerged from these broils Last Line: I will to bed!--to-morrow-- [dies. Subject(s): Hungary; Otto The Great, King Of Germany (912-73); Revolutions; Otho The Great; Ottol The Great PART 2, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Love in a hut, with water and a crust PEERLESS POESY, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A drainless shower POPULARITY, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text 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 ROBIN HOOD, TO A FRIEND, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No! Those days are gone away Last Line: Let us two a burden try. Subject(s): Robin Hood SACRIFICE TO PAN, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Full in the middle of this pleasantness SATURN, AS HE WALKED INTO THE MIDST, FR. HYPERION, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography SAY, DOTH THE DULL SOIL ...', by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Birds SEVERN'S JOHN KEATS, 1821, by GARY THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: Keats, in his tiny body Last Line: On the fading walls SHARING EVE'S APPLE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O blush not so! O blush not so Last Line: O cut the sweet apple and share it! Variant Title(s): Eve's Sweet Pipin Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit; Religion; Eve; Theology SHELL'S SONG, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I stood upon a shore, a pleasant shore Subject(s): Sea SHIP IN THE BAY, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: See, the ship in the bay is riding Last Line: My love is breathing a prayer for me SLEEP AND POETRY, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is more gentle than a wind in summer? Last Line: I leave them as a father does his son. SONG (1), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a dove and the sweet dove died Last Line: Why not live sweetly, as in the green trees? Variant Title(s): The Dove;song: I Had A Dove And The Sweet Dove Died Subject(s): Doves SONG (2), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit here that reignest Last Line: Just fresh from the banquet of comus. SONG (3), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush, hush! Tread softly! Hush, hush my dear! Last Line: While I kiss to the melody, aching all through! SONG OF FOUR FAERIES, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy, happy glowing fire Last Line: And twilight your floating bowers. SONG OF SPRING, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And o and o SONG: STAY, RUBY-BREASTED WARBLER, STAY, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Stay, ruby-breasted warbler, stay Last Line: Amid the gloom and grief of tears SONNET, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell Last Line: But death intenser--death is life's high meed. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) SONNET, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When I have fears that I may cease to be Last Line: Till love and fame to nothingness do sink. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) SONNET, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To one who has been long in city pent Last Line: That falls through the clear ether silently. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) SONNET, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many bards gild the lapses of time Last Line: Make pleasing music, and not wild uproar. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) SONNET, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone! Last Line: He'll let me sleep, seeing I fast and pray. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) SONNET, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell Last Line: But death intenser--death is life's high meed. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) SONNET, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I have fears that I may cease to be Last Line: Till love and fame to nothingness do sink. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) 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 (ON HEARING THE BAG-PIPE), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of late two dainties were before me plac'd Last Line: Mum chance art thou with both oblig'd to part. Subject(s): Bagpipes; Musical Instruments SONNET (ON LEIGH HUNT'S POEM 'THE STORY OF RIMINI'), by JOHN KEATS Poet's Biography First Line: Who loves to peer up at the morning sun SONNET (ON RECEIVING A LAUREL CROWN FROM LEIGH HUNT), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Minutes are flying swiftly, and as yet Last Line: Of all the many glories that may be. SONNET (ON THE DEATH OF HIS GRANDMOTHER), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As from the darkening gloom a silver dove Last Line: Wherefore does any grief our joy impair? Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers SONNET (TO A YOUNG LADY WHO SENT ME A LAUREL CROWN), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fresh morning gusts have blown away all fear Last Line: Yet would I kneel and kiss thy gentle hand? SONNET (TO JOHN HAMILTON REYNOLDS), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O that a week could be an age Last Line: Me how to harbour such a happy thought. SONNET (TO THE LADIES WHO SAW ME CROWN'D), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is there in the universal earth Last Line: Due reverence to your most sovereign eyes. SONNET (TO THE NILE), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Son of the old moon-mountains african Last Line: And to the sea as happily dost haste. Subject(s): Nile (river) SONNET (WRITTEN IN ANSWER TO A SONNET ENDING THUS: -), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blue! 'tis the life of heaven, - the domain Last Line: When in an eye thou art alive with fate! Variant Title(s): "blue Eyes (answer To A Sonnet Ending Thus: -);""blue! 'tis The Life Of Heaven, - The Domain""; Subject(s): Admiration; Eyes SONNET (WRITTEN IN THE COTTAGE WHERE BURNS WAS BORN), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This mortal body of a thousand days Last Line: O smile among the shades, for this is fame! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets SONNET (WRITTEN UPON THE TOP OF BEN NEVIS), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Read me a lesson, muse, and speak it loud Last Line: But in the world of thought and mental might! Subject(s): Ben Nevis (mountain), Scotland 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 ON FAME (2), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How fevered is the man, who cannot look Last Line: Spoil his salvation for a fierce miscreed? Subject(s): Fame; Reputation SONNET ON PEACE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O peace! And dost thou with thy presence bless Last Line: So with the horrors past thou'lt win thy happier fate! SONNET ON SITTING DOWN TO READ KING LEAR ONCE AGAIN, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O golden-tongued romance, with serene lute! Last Line: Give me new phoenix wings to fly at my desire. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SONNET TO A LADY SEEN FOR A FEW MOMENTS AT VAUXHALL, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time's sea hath been five years at its slow ebb Last Line: And grief unto my darling joys dost bring. SONNET TO ALISA ROCK, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hearken, thou craggy ocean pyramid! Last Line: Another cannot wake thy giant size. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONNET TO MRS. REYNOLD'S CAT, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cat! Who hast pass'd thy grand climacteric Last Line: In youth thou enter'dst on glass bottled wall. Variant Title(s): To A Cat;on Mrs. Reynold's Cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats SONNET TO MY BROTHERS, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Small, busy flames play through the fresh Last Line: November Variant Title(s): To My Brothers SONNET TO SPENSER, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spenser! A jealous honourer of thine Last Line: Will for thine honour and his pleasure try. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) SONNET WRITTEN AT THE END OF THE FLOURE AND THE LEFE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This pleasant tale is like a little copse Last Line: Were heard of none beside the mournful robins. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400) SONNET WRITTEN IN DISGUST OF VULGAR SUPERSTITION, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The church bells toll a melancholy round Last Line: And many glories of immortal stamp. Subject(s): Superstition SONNET, WRITTEN IN JANUARY 1817, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After dark vapors have oppressed our plains Last Line: A woodland rivulet--a poet's death. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONNET: ADDRESSED TO HAYDON (1), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Highmindedness, a jealousy for good Last Line: Proud to behold him in his country's eye. Subject(s): Haydon, Benjamin Robert (1786-1846) SONNET: ADDRESSED TO HAYDON (2), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great spirits now on earth are sojourning Last Line: Listen awhile, ye nations, and be dumb. Variant Title(s): "to Benjamin Robert Haydon;""great Spirits Now On Earth Are Sojourning""; Subject(s): Haydon, Benjamin Robert (1786-1846) SONNET: ON FAME (1), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fame, like a wayward girl, will still be coy Last Line: Then, if she likes it, she will follow you. Subject(s): Fame; Reputation SONNET: THE HUMAN SEASONS, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four seasons fill the measure of the year Last Line: Or else he would forego his mortal nature. Variant Title(s): The Seasons Of Man Subject(s): Life Change Events; Seasons SONNET: TO FANNY, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cry your mercy, pity, love -- aye love! Last Line: Losing its gust, and my ambition blind! Variant Title(s): "i Cry Your Mercy-pity-love!-aye, Love""; Subject(s): Brawne, Fanny; Desire; Love SONNET: TO HOMER, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Standing aloof in giant ignorance Last Line: To dian, queen of earth, and heaven, and hell. Variant Title(s): To Homer Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey SONNET: TO SLEEP, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O soft embalmer of the still midnight Last Line: And seal the hushed casket of my soul. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To Sleep Subject(s): Sleep SONNET: WRITTEN ON THE DAY THAT MR. LEIGH HUNT LEFT PRISON, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What though, for showing truth to flatter'd state Last Line: When thou art dead, and all thy wretched crew? Subject(s): Freedom; Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859); Liberty SPECIMEN OF AN INDUCTION TO A POEM, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! I must tell a tale of chivalry Last Line: Clear streams, smooth lakes, and overlooking towers. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) SPENSERIAN STANZA, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In after-time, a sage of mickle lore Last Line: The one he struck stone-blind, the other's eyes wox dim. Variant Title(s): "in After-time, A Sage Of Mickle Lore""; SPENSERIAN STANZAS ON CHARLES ARMITAGE BROWN, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is to weet a melancholy carle Last Line: Who as they walk abroad make tinkling with their feet. Variant Title(s): A Portrait;stanzas On Charles Armitage Brown;character Of Charles Brown Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) STANZAS TO MISS WYLIE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O come georgiana! The rose is full blown Last Line: With love-looking eyes, and with voice sweetly bland. SWEET, SWEET IS THE GREETING OF EYES, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Where furrows are new to the plough TEIGNMOUTH, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here all the summer could I stay Last Line: And startle the dappled prickets? THAT TINY BIRD SINGING ITS MEMORY ICICLE, by JOHN JOSEPH MCKERNAN Poem Source First Line: Enough heat to fry the snow? Last Line: As if time & john keats were foreign countries THE CAP AND BELLS OR THE JEALOUSIES; A FAERY TALE UNFINISHED, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In midmost ind, beside hydapes cool Last Line: The sequel of this day, though labour 'tis immense! THE CASTLE BUILDER; FRAGMENTS OF A DIALOGUE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In short, convince you that however wise Last Line: And I must sit to supper with my friar. THE DEVON MAID, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where be ye going, you devon maid? Last Line: And kiss on a grass green pillow. THE EVE OF SAINT MARK, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a sabbath-day it fell Last Line: At venice,-- THE EVE OF ST. AGNES, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: St. Agnes' eve - ah, bitter chill it was! Last Line: For aye unsought for slept among his ashes cold. Variant Title(s): Bitter Chill Subject(s): Agnes, Saint (d. 304 A.d.); Love; Saints; Winter THE FALL OF HYPERION; A DREAM, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave Last Line: And made their dove-wings tremble. On he flared. Subject(s): Sleep THE GADFLY, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All gentle folks who owe a grudge Last Line: The gadfly's little sting. THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poetry of earth is never dead Last Line: The grasshopper's among some grassy hills. Variant Title(s): On The Grasshopper And Cricket Subject(s): Crickets; Environment; Fields; Grasshoppers; Insects; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Bugs THE POET (A FRAGMENT), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where's the poet? Show him! Show him Last Line: On his ear like mother-tongue. THE REALM OF FANCY, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ever let the fancy roam! Last Line: Pleasure never is at home. Variant Title(s): Fancy Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy THE SEA, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It keeps eternal whisperings around Last Line: Until ye start, as if the sea-nymphs quir'd! Variant Title(s): Sonnet: On The Sea;on The Sea Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SPANISH STAIRS-ROME, by CHARLES LEO O'DONNELL Poem Text First Line: John keats, if he were living, with sad eyes Last Line: Three blind men fiddle in the gathering dusk. Subject(s): Monuments; Rome, Italy THE WAYFARER, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Keen, fitful gusts are whisp'ring here and there Last Line: And faithful petrarch gloriously crown'd. Variant Title(s): Sonnet;sonnet: Keen Fitful Gusts Subject(s): Petrarch (1304-1374); Francesco Petrarca THOMAS RYMER, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: True thomas lay oer yond grassy bank Last Line: True thomas on earth was never seen TO - (1), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Had I a man's fair form, then might my sighs Last Line: I'll gather some by spells, and incantation. TO - (2), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Think not of it, sweet one, so Last Line: A dirge of kisses. TO - (GEORGIANA AUGUSTA WYLIE, AFTERWARDS MRS. GEORGE KEATS), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hadst thou lived in days of old Last Line: Blood of those whose eyes can kill. TO A FRIEND WHO SENT ME SOME ROSES, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As late I rambled in the happy fields Last Line: Whisper'd of peace, and truth, and friendliness unquell'd. TO AUTUMN, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness Last Line: And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. Variant Title(s): Ode To Autumn Subject(s): Autumn; Men; Nature; Seasons; War; Fall TO BYRON, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Byron! How sweetly sad thy melody! Last Line: The enchanting tale, the tale of pleasing woe. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To Byron Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron TO CHATTERTON, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O chatterton! How very sad thy fate! Last Line: From thy fair name, and waters it with tears. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To Chatterton Subject(s): Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770) TO EMMA, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O come, dearest emma, the rose is full bloom Last Line: With love-looking eye, and with voice sweetly bland TO FANNY BRAWNE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This living hand, now warm and capable Last Line: I hold it towards you. Variant Title(s): Lines Supposed To Have Been Addressed To Fanny Brawne Subject(s): Brawne, Fanny; Hands TO G.A.W. (GEORGIANA AUGUSTA WYLIE), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nymph of the downward smile and sidelong glance Last Line: Trips it before apollo than the rest. TO HAYDON, WITH A SONNET WRITTEN ON SEEING THE ELGIN MARBLES, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Haydon! Forgive me that I cannot speak Last Line: Of their star in the east, and gone to worship them. TO HOPE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When by my solitary hearth I sit Last Line: Waving thy silver pinions o'er my head. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism 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'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 FROM FANNY BRAWNE, A, by HELEN B. MITCHELL Poem Text TO JOHN KEATS, POET, AT SPRING TIME, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text 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'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 KOSCIUSKO, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good kosciusko! Thy great name alone Last Line: To where the great god lives for evermore. Subject(s): Freedom; Kosciuszko, Thaddeus (1746-1817); Liberty TO LEIGH HUNT, ESQ., by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Glory and loveliness have passed away Last Line: With these poor offerings, a man like thee. Variant Title(s): Dedication To Leigh Hunt, Esq Subject(s): Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859) TO MY BROTHER GEORGE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many the wonders I this day have seen Last Line: Would be the wonders of the sky and sea? TO SOLITUDE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O solitude! If I must with thee dwell Last Line: When to thy haunts two kindred spirits flee. Variant Title(s): Sonnet: Solitude Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness TO SOME LADIES [ON RECEIVING A CURIOUS SHELL], by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What though, while the wonders of nature exploring Last Line: In elegant, pure, and aerial minds. Variant Title(s): To Some Ladies Subject(s): Shells; Conchology TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN KEATS, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text 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 TWO OR THREE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two or three posies Last Line: To hatch into sonnets. UPON A HILL, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood tiptoe upon a little hill Last Line: My wand'ring spirit must no further soar. -- Subject(s): Morning VICTIM OF CIRCE'S ART, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I sue not for my happy crown again WEEP YOU NO MORE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Weep you no more, sad fountains! Last Line: Softly, now softly lies %sleeping WHAT IS LIFE?, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Stop and consider! Life is but a day WHAT THE THRUSH SAID, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou whose face hath felt the winter's wind Last Line: And he's awake who thinks himself asleep. Variant Title(s): "o Thou Whose Face Hath Felt The Winter's Wind"";what The Thrush Seemed To Say; Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes WOMEN, WINE AND SNUFF, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me women, wine and, snuff Last Line: My beloved trinity. YOU SAY YOU LOVE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You say you love; but with a voice Last Line: O love me truly! Subject(s): Love |
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