Poetry Codex

Romantic

John Keats

1795–1821

John Keats (1795–1821) was an English Romantic poet whose odes are among the most celebrated in the language.

He trained as a surgeon before devoting himself to poetry, and died of tuberculosis in Rome at just twenty-five.

Major Works (1)

  1. Endymion — Narrative poem, 1818

Poems (133)

  1. Ode on a Grecian Urn
  2. To Autumn
  3. Bright Star
  4. Lamia
  5. Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil
  6. The Eve of St. Agnes
  7. Ode to a Nightingale
  8. Ode to Psyche
  9. Fancy
  10. Ode: Bards of Passion and of Mirth
  11. Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
  12. Robin Hood
  13. Ode on Melancholy
  14. Hyperion
  15. To Leigh Hunt, Esq.
  16. I Stood Tip-toe upon a Little Hill
  17. Specimen of an Induction to a Poem
  18. Calidore
  19. To Some Ladies
  20. On Receiving a Curious Shell, and a Copy of Verses, from the Same Ladies
  21. Hadst Thou Liv'd in Days of Old
  22. To Hope
  23. Imitation of Spenser
  24. Woman! When I Behold Thee Flippant, Vain
  25. To George Felton Mathew
  26. To My Brother George
  27. To Charles Cowden Clarke
  28. To My Brother George (sonnet)
  29. Had I a Man's Fair Form, Then Might My Sighs
  30. Written on the Day That Mr. Leigh Hunt Left Prison
  31. How Many Bards Gild the Lapses of Time!
  32. To a Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses
  33. To G. A. W.
  34. O Solitude! If I Must with Thee Dwell
  35. To My Brothers
  36. Keen, Fitful Gusts Are Whisp'ring Here and There
  37. To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent
  38. On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
  39. On Leaving Some Friends at an Early Hour
  40. Addressed to Haydon
  41. Addressed to the Same
  42. On the Grasshopper and Cricket
  43. To Kosciusko
  44. Happy Is England! I Could Be Content
  45. Sleep and Poetry
  46. Happy Insensibility
  47. La Belle Dame Sans Merci
  48. The Terror of Death
  49. The Human Seasons
  50. On Death
  51. Women, Wine, and Snuff
  52. Fill for Me a Brimming Bowl
  53. Sonnet on Peace
  54. Sonnet to Byron
  55. Sonnet to Chatterton
  56. Sonnet to Spenser
  57. Ode to Apollo
  58. Sonnet to a Young Lady Who Sent Me a Laurel Crown
  59. Hymn to Apollo
  60. Sonnet: As from the darkening gloom a silver dove
  61. Stanzas to Miss Wylie
  62. Sonnet: Oh! how I love, on a fair summer's eve
  63. Sonnet: Before he went to feed with owls and bats
  64. Sonnet Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition
  65. Sonnet: After dark vapors have oppress'd our plains
  66. Sonnet: This pleasant tale is like a little copse
  67. To Haydon
  68. On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
  69. Sonnet on a Picture of Leander
  70. To ----: Think not of it, sweet one, so
  71. Lines: Unfelt, unheard, unseen
  72. Sonnet on the Sea
  73. Sonnet on Leigh Hunt's Poem "The Story of Rimini"
  74. On Oxford
  75. The Poet
  76. Modern Love
  77. Fragment of "The Castle Builder"
  78. A Song of Opposites
  79. Sonnet to a Cat
  80. Lines on Seeing a Lock of Milton's Hair
  81. Sonnet on Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
  82. Sharing Eve's Apple
  83. A Draught of Sunshine
  84. Sonnet to the Nile
  85. Sonnet to a Lady Seen for a Few Moments at Vauxhall
  86. Sonnet Written in Answer to a Sonnet Ending Thus
  87. Sonnet to John Hamilton Reynolds
  88. What the Thrush Said
  89. "O! were I one of the Olympian twelve"
  90. Daisy's Song
  91. Folly's Song
  92. "Oh, I am frighten'd with most hateful thoughts!"
  93. Song: The stranger lighted from his steed
  94. "Asleep! O sleep a little while, white pearl!"
  95. Faery Songs
  96. Sonnet to Homer
  97. Song: Spirit here that reignest
  98. The Devon Maid
  99. Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds
  100. Fragment of an Ode to Maia, Written on May Day, 1818
  101. Acrostic: Georgiana Augusta Keats
  102. Sonnet on Visiting the Tomb of Burns
  103. Meg Merrilies
  104. A Song about Myself
  105. A Galloway Song
  106. Sonnet to Ailsa Rock
  107. Sonnet Written in the Cottage Where Burns Was Born
  108. Lines Written in the Highlands after a Visit to Burns's Country
  109. The Gadfly
  110. Sonnet on Hearing the Bag-pipe and Seeing "The Stranger" Played at Inverary
  111. Staffa
  112. Sonnet Written upon the Top of Ben Nevis
  113. Translation from a Sonnet of Ronsard
  114. A Prophecy: To George Keats in America
  115. Spenserian Stanza Written at the Close of Canto II, Book V, of "The Faerie Queene"
  116. The Eve of Saint Mark
  117. Ode to Fanny
  118. Sonnet to Sleep
  119. Song: Hush, hush! tread softly
  120. Song: I had a dove and the sweet dove died
  121. Ode on Indolence
  122. Sonnet: Why did I laugh to-night?
  123. Sonnet: A Dream, after Reading Dante's Episode of Paulo and Francesca
  124. Spenserian Stanzas on Charles Armitage Brown
  125. Song of Four Faeries
  126. Two Sonnets on Fame
  127. Sonnet on the Sonnet
  128. Sonnet: The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
  129. Lines to Fanny
  130. Sonnet to Fanny
  131. The Fall of Hyperion
  132. The Cap and Bells; or, The Jealousies
  133. Lines Supposed to Have Been Addressed to Fanny Brawne

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