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
wine mermaid soul
Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host's Canary wine?
kissing soul firsts
I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—‘t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.
moving wings soul
When it is moving on luxurious wings, The soul is lost in pleasant smotherings.
soul tears world
Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
passion heaven soul
Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Have ye souls in heaven too, Double-lived in regions new?
soul world use
Call the world if you please "the vale of soul-making." Then you will find out the use of the world.
years soul deeds
O for ten years, that I may overwhelm / Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed / That my own soul has to itself decreed.
writing poetry soul
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
keys soul caskets
Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards, And seal the hushed Casket of my Soul.
dancing soul poppies
Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.
fear voice immortal-soul
He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
dreams immortal pass pleasures smoothly
Real are the dreams of Gods, and smoothly pass / Their pleasures in a long immortal dream.
benign careful fingers soft
O soft embalmer of the still midnight, / Shutting, with careful fingers and benign / Our gloom-pleased eyes.
happy loveliness simple sweet
Happy is England, sweet her artless daughters; / Enough their simple loveliness for me.