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The poetical works (1906)

Keats, John (1795-1821)

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INTRODUCTION
  
SONG.
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POSTHUMOUS AND FUGITIVE POEMS
  
ON DEATH
  
WOMEN, WINE, AND SNUFF
  
FILL FOR ME A BRIMMING BOWL
  
SONNET ON PEACE
  
SONNET TO BYRON
  
SONNET TO CHATTERTON
  
SONNET TO SPENSER
  
ODE TO APOLLO
  
SONNET TO A YOUNG LADY WHO SENT ME A LAUREL CROWN
  
HYMN TO APOLLO
  
SONNET
  
STANZAS TO MISS WYLIE
  
SONNET
  
SONNET
  
SONNET WRITTEN IN DISGUST OF VULGAR SUPERSTITION
  
SONNET
  
SONNET
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TWO SONNETS
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I TO HAYDON, WITH A SONNET WRITTEN ON SEEING THE ELGIN MARBLES
 II. 
II ON SEEING THE ELGIN MARBLES
  
SONNET ON A PICTURE OF LEANDER
  
TO ------
  
LINES
  
SONNET ON THE SEA
  
SONNET ON LEIGH HUNT'S POEM “THE STORY OF RIMINI”
  
ON OXFORD
  
THE POET
  
MODERN LOVE
  
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
  
SONNET
  
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]
  
DAISY'S SONG
  
FOLLY'S SONG
  
[Oh, I am frighten'd with most hateful thoughts!]
  
SONG
  
[Asleep! O sleep a little while, white pearl!]
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FAERY SONGS
 I. 
I.
 II. 
II.
  
SONNET TO HOMER
  
SONG
  
TEIGNMOUTH
  
THE DEVON MAID
  
EPISTLE TO JOHN HAMILTON REYNOLDS
  
DAWLISH FAIR
  
FRAGMENT OF AN ODE TO MAIA, WRITTEN ON MAY DAY, 1818
  
ACROSTIC GEORGIANA AUGUSTA KEATS
  
SONNET ON VISITING THE TOMB OF BURNS
  
MEG MERRILIES
  
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
  
THE GADFLY
  
SONNET ON HEARING THE BAG-PIPE AND SEEING “THE STRANGER” PLAYED AT INVERARY
  
STAFFA
  
SONNET WRITTEN UPON THE TOP OF BEN NEVIS
  
BEN NEVIS
  
TRANSLATION FROM A SONNET OF RONSARD
  
A PROPHECY: TO GEORGE KEATS IN AMERICA
  
STANZAS
  
SPENSERIAN STANZA
  
THE EVE OF SAINT MARK
  
ODE TO FANNY
  
SONNET TO SLEEP
  
SONG
  
SONG
  
ODE ON INDOLENCE
  
SONNET
  
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]]
  
Canto the xiii
  
SPENSERIAN STANZAS ON CHARLES ARMITAGE BROWN
  
TWO OR THREE
  
LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI
  
SONG OF FOUR FAERIES,
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TWO SONNETS ON FAME
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I
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II
  
SONNET ON THE SONNET
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OTHO THE GREAT
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ACT I.
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Scene I.
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Scene II.
 III. 
Scene III.
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ACT II.
 I. 
Scene I.
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Scene II.
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ACT III.
 I. 
Scene I.
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Scene II.
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ACT IV.
 I. 
Scene I.
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Scene II.
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ACT V.
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Scene I.
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Scene II.
 III. 
Scene III.
 IV. 
Scene IV.
 V. 
Scene V.
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KING STEPHEN
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ACT I.
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Scene I.
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Scene II.
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Scene III.
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Scene IV.
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POEMS WRITTEN LATE IN 1819
  
A PARTY OF LOVERS:
  
SONNET.
  
LINES TO FANNY.
  
SONNET. TO FANNY.
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THE FALL OF HYPERION
 I. 
[CANTO I.]
 II. 
CANTO II.
  
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

[Why did I laugh to-night? No voice will tell]

Why did I laugh to-night? No voice will tell:
No God, no Demon of severe response,
Deigns to reply from heaven or from Hell.
Then to my human heart I turn at once.
Heart! Thou and I are here sad and alone;
I say, why did I laugh! O mortal pain!
O Darkness! Darkness! ever must I moan,
To question Heaven and Hell and Heart in vain.
Why did I laugh? I know this Being's lease,
My fancy to its utmost blisses spreads;
Yet would I on this very midnight cease,
And the world's gaudy ensigns see in shreds;
Verse, Fame, and Beauty are intense indeed,
But Death intenser—Death is Life's high meed.
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