Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
Song Of Four Faries
Fire, Air, Earth, and Water,Salamander, Zephyr, Dusketha, and Breama.Salamander.Happy, happy glowing fire!Zephyr.Fragrant air! delicious..
© John Keats
Sonnet. On Peace
O PEACE! and dost thou with thy presence blessThe dwellings of this war-surrounded Isle;Soothing with placid brow our late distress,Making the triple..
© John Keats
Sonnet. On The Sea
It keeps eternal whisperings aroundDesolate shores, and with its mighty swellGluts twice ten thousand caverns, till the spellOf Hecate leaves them..
© John Keats
Sonnet. The Day Is Gone
The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!Sweet voice, sweet lips, soft hand, and softer breast,Warm breath, light whisper, tender semitone,Bright..
© John Keats
Song. Hush, Hush! Tread Softly!
1.Hush, hush! tread softly! hush, hush my dear!All the house is asleep, but we know very wellThat the jealous, the jealous old bald-pate may..
© John Keats
Lamia. Part Ii
Love in a hut, with water and a crust,Is—Love, forgive us!—cinders, ashes, dust;Love in a palace is perhaps at lastMore grievous torment than a..
© John Keats
Dedication To Leigh Hunt, Esq.
Glory and loveliness have pass'd away;For if we wander out in early morn,No wreathed incense do we see upborneInto the east, to meet the smiling..
© John Keats
To Some Ladies
What though while the wonders of nature exploring,I cannot your light, mazy footsteps attend;Nor listen to accents, that almost adoring,Bless..
© John Keats
Hyperion. Book I
Deep in the shady sadness of a valeFar sunken from the healthy breath of morn,Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star,Sat gray-hair'd Saturn..
© John Keats
Ode To Apollo
1.In thy western halls of goldWhen thou sittest in thy state,Bards, that erst sublimely toldHeroic deeds, and sang of fate,With fervour seize their..
© John Keats
To John Hamilton Reynolds
O that a week could be an age, and weFelt parting and warm meeting every week,Then one poor year a thousand years would be,The flush of welcome ever..
© John Keats
To Haydon With A Sonnet Written On Seeing The Elgin Marbles
Haydon! forgive me that I cannot speakDefinitively of these mighty things;Forgive me, that I have not eagle's wings,That what I want I know not where..
© John Keats
Epistle To John Hamilton Reynolds
Dear Reynolds, as last night I lay in bed,There came before my eyes that wonted threadOf shapes, and shadows, and remembrances,That every other..
© John Keats
Sonnet To Sleep
O soft embalmer of the still midnight!Shutting, with careful fingers and benign,Our gloom-pleas'd eyes, embower'd from the light,Enshaded in..
© John Keats
A Thing Of Beauty
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:Its loveliness increases; it will neverPass into nothingness; but still will keepA bower quiet for us, and a..
© John Keats
o G.A.W.
Nymph of the downward smile and sidelong glance!In what diviner moments of the dayArt thou most lovely?—when gone far astrayInto the labyrinths of..
© John Keats
Sonnet: When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be
When I have fears that I may cease to beBefore my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,Before high piled books, in charactry,Hold like rich garners the..
© John Keats
Song Of The Indian Maid, From 'Endymion'
O SORROW! Why dost borrow The natural hue of health, from vermeil lips?-- To give maiden blushes To the white rose bushes? Or is it thy..
© John Keats
Sleep And Poetry
As I lay in my bed slepe full unmeteWas unto me, but why that I ne mightRest I ne wist, for there n'as erthly wight[As I suppose] had more of hertis..
© John Keats
On A Dream
As Hermes once took to his feathers lightWhen lulled Argus, baffled, swoon'd and slept,So on a Delphic reed my idle sprightSo play'd, so charm'd, so..
© John Keats
Fragment. Welcome Joy, And Welcome Sorrow
'Under the flagOf each his faction, they to battle bringTheir embryo atoms.' ~ Milton.Welcome joy, and welcome sorrow,Lethe's weed and Hermes'..
© John Keats
Character Of Charles Brown
I.He is to weet a melancholy carle:Thin in the waist, with bushy head of hairAs hath the seeded thistle when in parleIt holds the Zephyr, ere it..
© John Keats
Song. I Had A Dove
I had a dove, and the sweet dove died;And I have thought it died of grieving:O, what could it grieve for? its feet were tiedWith a single thread of..
© John Keats
To A Young Lady Who Sent Me A Laurel Crown
Fresh morning gusts have blown away all fearFrom my glad bosom,—now from gloominessI mount for ever—not an atom lessThan the proud laurel shall..
© John Keats
Lamia. Part I
Upon a time, before the faery broodsDrove Nymph and Satyr from the prosperous woods,Before King Oberon's bright diadem,Sceptre, and mantle, clasp'd..
© John Keats