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
gossip silence repeats
To silence gossip, don't repeat it.
genius university innate
The genius of Shakespeare was an innate university.
kissing pride fickle
I came to feel how far above All fancy, pride, and fickle maidenhood, All earthly pleasure, all imagined good, Was the warm tremble of a devout kiss.
lap legends
Asleep in lap of legends old.
poppies dew stalking
The poppies hung Dew-dabbled on their stalks.
midnight tomorrow
There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.
shade violet moss
And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets.
clouds
I will clamber through the clouds and exist.
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.
silent eternity tease
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity...
whispering shore desolate
It keeps eternal whisperings around desolate shores
love believe valentines-day
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
queens lying wine
How I like claret!...It fills one's mouth with a gushing freshness, then goes down to cool and feverless; then, you do not feel it quarrelling with one's liver. No; 'tis rather a peace-maker, and lies as quiet as it did in the grape. Then it is as fragrant as the Queen Bee, and the more ethereal part mounts into the brain, not assaulting the cerebral apartments, like a bully looking for his trull, and hurrying from door to door, bouncing against the wainscott, but rather walks like Aladdin about his enchanted palace, so gently that you do not feel his step.
farewell awkward bows
I always made an awkward bow.