John Keats
John Keats
John Keatswas an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his work having been in publication for only four years before his death...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth31 October 1795
love sorrow kind
To Sorrow I bade good-morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly: She is so constant to me, and so kind.
moving dark shapes
...yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From out dark spirits.
forget far-away fades
Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget...
death brain may
When I have fears that I may ceace to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teaming brain".
despair energy latter
I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.
philosophy experience pulse
For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.
eye hands lays
His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed;
air softness
The air is all softness.
thinking married mets
I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel.
sky wings heaven
But let me see thee stoop from heaven on wings That fill the sky with silver glitterings!
beautiful art stars
... for, by all the stars That tend thy bidding, I do think the bars That kept my spirit in are burst - that I Am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!
art flower moss
And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.
song spring thinking
Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, where are they? Think not of them; thou has thy music too.
dream sleep phantoms
Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? ---"On death