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
errors experience form
Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
music songs thou thy
Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? / Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,
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?
fill four measure mind seasons
Four seasons fill the measure of the year; / There are four seasons in the mind of man.
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.
hands joy lips
Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu
comments led life shakespeare works
Shakespeare led a life of allegory; his works are the comments on it.
particular point
Point me out the way / To any one particular beauteous star.
cease fears pen
When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.
steal
O cruelty, / To steal my Basil-pot away from me!
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.
age draught hath
O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep-delvid earth...