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
life dust water
Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is - Love, forgive us! - cinders, ashes, dust.
life night winning
And there shall be for thee all soft delight That shadowy thought can win, A bright torch, and a casement ope at night, To let the warm Love in!
life mean wish
I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.
summer nature wind
What is more gentle than a wind is summer?
light poetry half
A drainless shower Of light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power; 'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm.
vision hierarchy olympus
O latest born and loveliest vision far of all Olympus' faded hierarchy.
wish crowds littles
Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?
war tombstone lying
Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
love crush without-you
I Cannot Exist Without You. I Am Forgetful Of Everything But Seeing You Again...
gratitude heaven woe
Their woes gone by, and both to heaven upflown, To bow for gratitude before Jove's throne.
love poet metaphysical
A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.
moving heart moon
What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should'st move My heart so potently?
lying heart names
This Grave contains all that was Mortal of a Young English Poet Who on his Death Bed in the Bitterness of his Heart at the Malicious Power of his Enemies Desired these words to be engraved on his Tomb Stone "Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water."
heart home sea
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.