greykit.poetry — John Keats
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1848
[john-keats]
When I have fears that I may cease to be
Fear of dying before the pen has gleaned the teeming brain, and of never again looking on the fair creature of an hour — resolved by standing alone on the shore of the wide world until love and fame sink to nothing.
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1838
[john-keats]
Bright Star
Keats's last sonnet — not to be fixed in lone, patient, priestlike vigil like the star, but steadfast in one thing: pillowed upon his fair love's ripening breast, awake forever in a sweet unrest, or else swoon to death.
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1820
[john-keats]
La Belle Dame sans Merci
A knight-at-arms palely loitering tells how a faery's child lulled him to cold-hill sleep, where pale kings warned — La Belle Dame sans Merci hath thee in thrall.
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1820
[john-keats]
Ode on Melancholy
Do not go to Lethe: the cure would kill the thing worth having. Melancholy lives in the temple of Delight itself, and only whoever can burst Joy's grape against a fine palate ever tastes her sadness.
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1820
[john-keats]
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Meditating on the frozen figures of an ancient urn, Keats finds that unheard melodies surpass the heard, and that the urn's last lesson to man is that beauty and truth are one.
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1820
[john-keats]
Ode to a Nightingale
Keats follows a nightingale's song out of the mortal world into an immortal darkness, then wakes to find the vision fled — was it a dream or a waking?
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1820
[john-keats]
To Autumn
Three stanzas address Autumn as a season and a presence — first as conspirer with the sun, then as a harvest figure at rest, and finally as maker of its own music in the dying day.
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1816
[john-keats]
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
Reading Chapman's Homer for the first time, described as an astronomer finding a new planet and as Cortez on a peak in Darien — the whole poem arriving at one silence, upon a peak.