Category John Keats

To A Cat Cat! who hast pass’d thy grand climacteric, How many mice and rats hast in thy days Destroy’d? — How many tidbits stolen? Gaze With those bright languid segments green, and prick Those velvet ears — but pr’ythee…

On Oxford The Gothic looks solemn, The plain Doric column Supports an old bishop and crosier; The mouldering arch, Shaded o’er by a larch Stands next door to Wilson the Hosier. Vice — that is, by turns, — The black…

Brother belov’d if health shall smile again, Upon this wasted form and fever’d cheek: If e’er returning vigour bid these weak And languid limbs their gladsome strength regain, Well may thy brow the placid glow retain Of sweet content and…

Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes, Nibble their toast, and cool their tea with sighs, Or else forget the purpose of the night, Forget their tea — forget their appetite. See with cross’d arms they sit — ah!…

Two or three posies With two or three simples Two or three noses With two or three pimples — Two or three wise men And two or three ninnies — Two or three purses And two or three guineas —…

I He is to weet a melancholy carle: Thin in the waist, with bushy head of hair, As hath the seeded thistle when in parle It holds the Zephyr, ere it sendeth fair Its light balloons into the summer air;…

A Little Extempore When they were come into Faery’s Court They rang — no one at home — all gone to sport And dance and kiss and love as faerys do For Faries be as human lovers true — Amid…

’Tis the witching time of night, Orbed is the moon and bright, And the Stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen. For what listen they? For a song and for a charm, See they glisten in alarm,…

1. O Blush not so! O blush not so! Or I shall think you knowing; And if you smile the blushing while, Then maidenheads are going. 2. There’s a blush for want, and a blush for shan’t, And a blush…

Meantime he sent a fluttering embassy To Pigmio, of Imaus sovereign, To half beg, and half demand, respectfully, The hand of his fair daughter Bellanaine; An audience had, and speeching done, they gain Their point, and bring the weeping bride…