Love

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

by John Keats 1795–1821

From Posthumous and Fugitive Poems

Love

Oh, I am frighten'd with most hateful thoughts!
Perhaps her voice is not a nightingale's,
Perhaps her teeth are not the fairest pearl;
Her eye-lashes may be, for aught I know,
Not longer than the May-fly's small fan-horns;
There may not be one dimple on her hand ;
And freckles many; ah! a careless nurse,
In haste to teach the little thing to walk,
May have crumpt up a pair of Dian's legs,
And warpt the ivory of a Juno's neck.

MLA

Keats, John. “"Oh, I am frighten'd with most hateful thoughts!".” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/keats/91/.

Chicago

Keats, John. “"Oh, I am frighten'd with most hateful thoughts!".” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/keats/91/.

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