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The poetical works (1906)

Keats, John (1795-1821)

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POSTHUMOUS AND FUGITIVE POEMS

WOMEN, WINE, AND SNUFF

FILL FOR ME A BRIMMING BOWL

SONNET ON PEACE

SONNET TO BYRON

SONNET TO CHATTERTON

SONNET TO SPENSER

SONNET TO A YOUNG LADY WHO SENT ME A LAUREL CROWN

STANZAS TO MISS WYLIE

SONNET

SONNET WRITTEN IN DISGUST OF VULGAR SUPERSTITION

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I.

I TO HAYDON, WITH A SONNET WRITTEN ON SEEING THE ELGIN MARBLES

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II ON SEEING THE ELGIN MARBLES

SONNET ON A PICTURE OF LEANDER

SONNET ON THE SEA

SONNET ON LEIGH HUNT'S POEM “THE STORY OF RIMINI”

A SONG OF OPPOSITES

SONNET TO A CAT

LINES ON SEEING A LOCK OF MILTON'S HAIR

SONNET ON SITTING DOWN TO READ KING LEAR ONCE AGAIN

SHARING EVE'S APPLE

A DRAUGHT OF SUNSHINE

SONNET TO THE NILE

SONNET TO A LADY SEEN FOR A FEW MOMENTS AT VAUXHALL

SONNET WRITTEN IN ANSWER TO A SONNET ENDING THUS:—

SONNET TO JOHN HAMILTON REYNOLDS

WHAT THE THRUSH SAID

SONNET THE HUMAN SEASONS

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EXTRACTS FROM AN OPERA

[O! were I one of the Olympian twelve]

[Oh, I am frighten'd with most hateful thoughts!]

[Asleep! O sleep a little while, white pearl!]

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SONNET TO HOMER

EPISTLE TO JOHN HAMILTON REYNOLDS

FRAGMENT OF AN ODE TO MAIA, WRITTEN ON MAY DAY, 1818

ACROSTIC GEORGIANA AUGUSTA KEATS

SONNET ON VISITING THE TOMB OF BURNS

A SONG ABOUT MYSELF

A GALLOWAY SONG

SONNET TO AILSA ROCK

SONNET WRITTEN IN THE COTTAGE WHERE BURNS WAS BORN

LINES WRITTEN IN THE HIGHLANDS AFTER A VISIT TO BURNS'S COUNTRY

SONNET ON HEARING THE BAG-PIPE AND SEEING “THE STRANGER” PLAYED AT INVERARY

SONNET WRITTEN UPON THE TOP OF BEN NEVIS

TRANSLATION FROM A SONNET OF RONSARD

A PROPHECY: TO GEORGE KEATS IN AMERICA

SPENSERIAN STANZA

THE EVE OF SAINT MARK

SONNET TO SLEEP

ODE ON INDOLENCE

SONNET A DREAM, AFTER READING DANTE'S EPISODE OF PAULO AND FRANCESCA

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AN EXTEMPORE FROM A LETTER TO GEORGE KEATS AND HIS WIFE

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[[Canto the xii]]

SPENSERIAN STANZAS ON CHARLES ARMITAGE BROWN

LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI

SONG OF FOUR FAERIES,

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TWO SONNETS ON FAME

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SONNET ON THE SONNET

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POEMS WRITTEN LATE IN 1819

A PARTY OF LOVERS:

LINES TO FANNY.

SONNET. TO FANNY.

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THE FALL OF HYPERION

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THE CAP AND BELLS

LINES SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED TO FANNY BRAWNE

SONNET Written on a Blank Page in Shakespeare's Poems, facing “A Lover's Complaint.”

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SONNET

[Before he went to feed with owls and bats]

Before he went to feed with owls and bats
Nebuchadnezzar had an ugly dream,
Worse than an Hus'if's when she thinks her cream
Made a Naumachia for mice and rats.
So scared, he sent for that “Good King of Cats”
Young Daniel, who soon did pluck away the beam
From out his eye, and said he did not deem
The sceptre worth a straw—his Cushions old door-mats.
A horrid nightmare similar somewhat
Of late has haunted a most motley crew,
Most loggerheads and Chapmen—we are told
That any Daniel tho' he be a sot
Can make the lying lips turn pale of hue
By belching out “ye are that head of Gold.”