The poems of John Keats

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Imitation of Spenser

On peace

'Fill me a brimming bowl'

'As from the darkening gloom a silver dove'

To Lord Byron

To chatterton

Written on the day that Mr Leigh Hunt left prison

To hope

Ode to Apollo

Written on 29 May

To some ladies

On receiving a curious shell and a copy of verses from the same ladies

To Emma Mathew

'O solitude, if I must with thee dweel'

To geroge Felton Mathew

'Give me women, wine and snuff'

To Mary Frogley

To

['had I a man's fair form']

Specimen of an induction to a poem

Calidore: a fragment

'Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain'

'Light feet, dark violet eyes, and parted hair'

'Ah, who can e're forget so fair a being'

'To one who has been long in city pent'

'Oh, how I love, on a fair summer's eve'

To a friend who sent me some roses

To my brother George [sonnet]

To my brother George [epistle]

To Charles Cowden Clarke

'How many bards gild the lapses of time'

On first looking into Chapman's Homer

'Keen, fitful gusts are whispering here and there'

On leaving some friends at an early hour

To my brothers

Addressed to Haydon

Addressed to the same ['great spirits']

Sleep and poetry

'I stood tip-toe upon a little hill'

Written in disgust of vulgar superstition

On the grasshopper and cricket

To Georgiana Augusta Wylie

To Kosciuscko

'Happy is England! I could be content'

'After dark vapours have oppressed our plains'

To Leigh Hunt, espq

Written on a blank space at the end of Chaucer's tale 'The Floure and the Leafe'

On seeing the Elgin Marbles

To B. R. Haydon, with a sonnet written on seeing the Elgin Marbles

On The Story of Rimini

On a Leander gem which Miss Reynolds, my kind friend, gave me

To a young lady who sent me a laurel crown

On receiving a laurel crown from Leigh Hunt

To the ladies who saw me crowned

To Apollo

On the sea

'You say you love'

'Unfelt, unheard, unseen'

'Hither, hither, love'

Endymion: a poetic romance

Lines rhymed in a letter from Oxford

'Think not of it, sweet one, so'

'In drear-nighted December'

Nebuchadnezzar's dream

Apollo to the graces

To Aubrey George Spencer

To Mrs. Reynolds's cat

On seeing a lock of Milton's hair

On sitting down to read King Lear once again

'When I have fears that I may cease to be'

'Oh, blush not so, oh, blush not so'

'Hence burgundy, claret and port'

Robin Hood

Lines on the Mermaid Tavern

To

['time's sea']

To the Nile

'Spencer! a jealous honourer of thine'

'Blue! 'tis the life of heaven'

'O thou whose face hath felt the winter's wind'

'Four seasons fill the measure of the year'

'Oh, were I one of the Olympian twelve'

Daisy's song

Folly's song

'Oh, I am frightened with most hateful thoughts'

'The stranger lighted from his steed'

'Asleep! Oh, sleep a little while, white pearl!'

'For there's Bishop's Teign'

'Where be ye going, you Devon maid'

'Over the hill and over the dale'

To J. H. Reynolds, esq

Isabella; or, the pot of Basil

To James Rice

To Homer

Ode to May: fragment

Acrostic

'Sweet, sweet is the greeting of eyes'

On visiting the tomb of Burns

'Old Meg she was a gipsy'

A song about myself

'Ah, ken ye what I met the day '

To Ailsa Rock

'This mortal body of a thousand days'

'All gentle folks who owe a grudge'

'Of late two dainties were before me placed'

Lines written in the highlands after a visit to Burns's country

'Not Aladdin magian'

'Read me a lesson, muse, and speak it loud'

'Upon my life, Sir Nevis, I am piqued'

Stanzas on some skulls in Beauley Abbey, near Inverness

Translated from Ronsard

''Tis the "witching time of night"'

'Welcome joy and welcome sorrow

Song ['spirit here that reignest]'

'Where's the poet? Show him, show him'

Fragment of the 'Castle Builder'

'And what is love? It is a doll dressed up'

Hyperion: a fragment

Fancy

Ode ['bards of passion and of mirth']

'I had a dove'

'Hush, hush! tread softly! Hush, hush, my dear'

The eve of St. Agnes

The eve of St. Mark

'Why did I laugh tonight?'

'Shed no tear

oh, shed no tear'

'Ah, woe is me, poor silver-wing'

'When they were come unto the fairy's court

'The house of mourning written by Mr. Scott'

'He is to weet a melancholy carle'

'As Hermes once took to is feathers light'

La belle dame sans merci

Song of four fairies

To sleep

'Fame like a wayward girl will still be coy'

'How fevered is the man who cannot look'

Ode to Psyche

'If by dull rhymes our English must be chained'

'Two or three posies'

Ode to a nightingale

Ode on a Grecian urn

Ode on melancholy

Ode on indolence

Otho the great

Lamia

'Pensive they sit and roll their languid eyes'

To autumn

The fall of Hyperion: a dream

'The day is gone and all its sweets are gone'

To [Fanny]

'I cry your mercy, pity, love'

King Stephen

'This living hand, now warm and capable'

The cap and bells

'Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art'

Ode to Fanny

'In after-time, a sage of mickle lore'

'Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream'

Song ['stay, ruby-breasted warbler, stay']

'See the ship in the bay is riding'

The poet

To woman (from the Greek)

Gripus: a fragment

Fragments ['I am as brisk...', 'Oh, grant that like to Peter I...', 'They weren fully glad of their gude hap...']