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
benign careful fingers soft
O soft embalmer of the still midnight, / Shutting, with careful fingers and benign / Our gloom-pleased eyes.
fancy home pleasure thy
Ever let thy Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home
valentines-day kissing romantic-love
Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
positive happiness real
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
human-nature fine scenery
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
best-friend kissing movement
You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.
imagination atheism literature
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
grieving steel heal
The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.
winter silence evening
On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.
lakes water poetry
A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.
genius university innate
The genius of Shakespeare was an innate university.
poppies dew stalking
The poppies hung Dew-dabbled on their stalks.
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