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
boat fragile life monstrous poor sleep steep stop
Stop and consider! life is but a day; A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree's summit; a poor Indian's sleep While his boat hastens to the monstrous steep Of Montmorenci
hands joy lips
Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu
budding days flowers later summer until warm
To set budding more, / And still more, later flowers for the bees, / Until they think warm days will never cease, / For summer has o'erbrimmed their clammy cells.
steal
O cruelty, / To steal my Basil-pot away from me!
particular point
Point me out the way / To any one particular beauteous star.
comments led life shakespeare works
Shakespeare led a life of allegory; his works are the comments on it.
cease fears pen
When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.
beyond flaw forces happiness singing skies spoils summer
It is a flaw / In happiness to see beyond our bourn, - / It forces us in summer skies to mourn, / It spoils the singing of the nightingale.
fill four measure mind seasons
Four seasons fill the measure of the year; / There are four seasons in the mind of man.
happy loveliness simple sweet
Happy is England, sweet her artless daughters; / Enough their simple loveliness for me.
god golden patient slept thine
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?
music songs thou thy
Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? / Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,
fancy home pleasure thy
Ever let thy Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home
kings poet shall simply
They shall be accounted poet kings / Who simply tell the most heart-easing things.