Ode to a Nightingale : : By John Keats ( 1795 – 1821 ) My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:‘Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being tooContinue reading “Ode To A Nightingale : John Keats : : Bird Poems : :”
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Bright Stars , Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art : John Keats : Sonnet : : Star Poems : :
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou artBY JOHN KEATSBright star, would I were stedfast as thou art— 1 Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night 2 And watching, with eternal lids apart, 3 Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite,The moving waters at their priestlike task 5 Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores,Continue reading “Bright Stars , Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art : John Keats : Sonnet : : Star Poems : :”
To Autumn : John Keats : : Autumn Poems : :
To Autumn BY JOHN KEATSSeason of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazelContinue reading “To Autumn : John Keats : : Autumn Poems : :”
To My Brother George : John Keats : Brother Poems : :
John Keats (1795–1821). The Poetical Works of John Keats. 1884. To My Brother George MANY the wonders I this day have seen: The sun, when first he kist away the tears That fill’d the eyes of morn;—the laurel’d peers Who from the feathery gold of evening lean;— The ocean with its vastness, its blue green,Continue reading “To My Brother George : John Keats : Brother Poems : :”