< Return to All John Keats I Stood Tiptoe Upon a Little Hill I stood tip-toe upon a little hill, The air was cooling, and so very still, That the sweet buds which with a modest pride Pull droopingly, in slanting curve aside, Their scantly leaved, and finely tapering stems, Had not yet lost those […]
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“I Had a Dove” by John Keats
< Return to All John Keats I Had a Dove I had a dove, and the sweet dove died And I have thought it died of grieving; O what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied With a silken thread of my own hand’s weaving: Sweet little red feet! why would you die? Why […]
“Hymn to Apollo” by John Keats
< Return to All John Keats Hymn to Apollo God of the golden bow, And of the golden lyre, And of the golden hair, And of the golden fire, Charioteer Of the patient year, Where—where slept thine ire, When like a blank idiot I put on thy wreath, Thy laurel, thy glory, The light of […]
“Hither, Hither, Love” by John Keats
< Return to All John Keats Hither, Hither, Love Hither hither, love— ‘Tis a shady mead— Hither, hither, love! Let us feed and feed! Hither, hither, sweet— ‘Tis a cowslip bed— Hither, hither, sweet! ‘Tis with dew bespread! Hither, hither, dear By the breath of life, Hither, hither, dear!— Be the summer’s wife! Though one […]
“Happy is England” by John Keats
< Return to All John Keats Happy is England Happy is England! I could be content To see no other verdure than its own; To feel no other breezes than are blown Through its tall woods with high romances blent: Yet do I sometimes feel a languishment For skies Italian, and an inward groan To […]
“Fancy” by John Keats
< Return to All John Keats Fancy Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home: At a touch sweet Pleasure melteth, Like to bubbles when rain pelteth; Then let winged Fancy wander Through the thought still spread beyond her: Open wide the mind’s cage-door, She’ll dart forth, and cloudward soar. O sweet Fancy! […]
“Faery Songs” by John Keats
< Return to All John Keats Faery Songs I. Shed no tear! oh, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more! oh, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root’s white core. Dry your eyes! oh, dry your eyes! For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of […]
“Bright Star” by John Keats
< Return to All John Keats Bright Star Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature’s patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores, Or gazing on the new […]
“Apollo to the Graces” by John Keats
< Return to All John Keats Apollo to the Graces APOLLO Which of the fairest three Today will ride with me? My steeds are all pawing on the thresholds of Morn: Which of the fairest three Today will ride with me? Across the gold Autumn’s whole kingdoms of corn? THE GRACES all answer I will, […]
“After Dark Vapors Have Oppressed Our Plains” by John Keats
< Return to All John Keats After Dark Vapors Have Oppressed Our Plains After dark vapours have oppressed our plains For a long dreary season, comes a day Born of the gentle South, and clears away From the sick heavens all unseemly stains. The anxious month, relievèd of its pains, Takes as a long-lost right […]
“Addressed to the Same” by John Keats
< Return to All John Keats Addressed to the Same Great spirits now on earth are sojourning; He of the cloud, the cataract, the lake, Who on Helvellyn’s summit, wide awake, Catches his freshness from Archangel’s wing: He of the rose, the violet, the spring, The social smile, the chain for Freedom’s sake: And lo!—whose […]
“A Song of Opposites” by John Keats
< Return to All John Keats A Song of Opposites Welcome joy, and welcome sorrow, Lethe’s weed and Hermes’ feather; Come to-day, and come to-morrow, I do love you both together! I love to mark sad faces in fair weather; And hear a merry laugh amid the thunder; Fair and foul I love together. Meadows […]
“A Song About Myself” by John Keats
< Return to All John Keats A Song About Myself There was a naughty boy, A naughty boy was he, He would not stop at home, He could not quiet be- He took In his knapsack A book Full of vowels And a shirt With some towels, A slight cap For night cap, A hair […]
“A Party Of Lovers” by John Keats
< Return to All John Keats A Party Of Lovers Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes, Nibble their toast, and cool their tea with sighs, Or else forget the purpose of the night, Forget their tea — forget their appetite. See with cross’d arms they sit — ah! happy crew, The fire is […]
“A Galloway Song” by John Keats
< Return to All John Keats A Galloway Song Ah! ken ye what I met the day Out oure the Mountains A coming down by craggies grey An mossie fountains — A[h] goud hair’d Marie yeve I pray Ane minute’s guessing — For that I met upon the way Is past expressing. As I stood […]
“This Living Hand” by John Keats
< Return to All John Keats This Living Hand This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights That thou would wish thine own heart dry of blood So in my veins […]
Adjustments: A Belated Bicentenary Party for John Keats
The characters from Adjustments: a novel return for a sort of celebration in belated honor of the bicentenary of the death of John Keats.
“Ode to a Nightingale,” by John Keats
< Return to All John Keats Ode to a Nightingale My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: ‘Tis not through envy of […]
“When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be” by John Keats
< Return to All John Keats When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain, Before high-pilèd books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain; When I behold, upon the night’s starred face, […]
John Keats Arts & Experience Library
Poems A Party of Lovers A Song About Myself A Song of Opposites Addressed to the Same After Dark Vapors Have Oppressed Our Plains Apollo to the Graces Bright Star Faery Songs Fancy Fill For Me a Brimming Bowl Galloway Song Happy is England Hither, Hither, Love Hymn to Apollo I Had a Dove […]