THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

JOHN KEATS,

WITH A MEMOIR,

BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

NEW YORK:
JAMES MILLER, 779 BROADWAY.

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618002

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the rear 1864, by

LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY, na the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Mas

nachusetts.

PAGA

THE LIFE OF KEATS......

7

VENDYMION: A Poetic Romance.

35

LAMIA.......

149

ISABELLA, OR THE Por or BASIL: A Story, from

Boccaccio.......

170

VIHE EVE OF St. AGNES.

189

HYPERION..

208

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

Dedication to Leigh Hunt, Esq..

230

“I stood tiptoe upon a little Hill”.

231

Specimen of an Induction to a Poem.

238

Calidore: A Fragment..

240

To some Ladies, on receiving a curious Shell.... 245

On receiving a copy of Verses from the same

246

To

248

To Hope..

250

Imitation of Spenser...

251

“Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain ”.. 252

Ode to a Nightingale..

254

Vode to a Grecian Urn...

256

Ode to Psyche..

258

Fancy

260

Ode

262

To Autumn..

264

Ode on Melancholy.

265

Lines on the Mermaid Tavern.

266

Robin Hood....

267

Sleep and Poetry.

269

Stanzas.

280

Ladies ....

EPISTLES.

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To George Felton Mathew..

285

To my Brother George....

287

To Charles Cowden Clarke..

292

SONNETS.

To a Friend who sent me some Roses..

299

To my Brother George.

300

Το

300

“O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell”

301

“How many Bards gild the lapses of Time!”. 301

To G. A. W.

302

Written on the Day that Mr. Leigh Hunt left

Prison

302

To my Brother.

303

Addressed to Haydon..

303

the Same.

304

On first looking into Chapman's Homer.

304

On leaving some Friends at an early Hour.

305

“Keen fitful gusts are whispering here and there" 305

“ To one who has been long in city pent

306

On the Grasshopper and Cricket...

306

To Kosciusko

307

“Happy is England! I could be content" 307

The Human Seasons..

308

On a Picture of Leander.

308

To Ailsa Rock...

309

On seeing the Elgin Marbles..

309

To Haydon: with the preceding sonnet.

310

Written in the Cottage where Burns was born.. 310

To the Nile...

312

On sitting down to read “ King Lear” once again 312

“Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud 313

POSTHUMOUS POEMS.

Fingal's Cave.

815

Το

316

Hymn to Apollo.

318

Lines

319

Song :

320

Faery Song

321

La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad.

322

The Eve of St. Mark. (Unfinished).

324

To Fanny..

327

Sonnets.

“Oh! how I love, on a fair summer's eve

..... 330

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POSTHUMOUS POEMS. (Continued.)

Sonnets.

To a Young Lady who sent me a Laurel Crown. 831

“ After dark vapors have oppress'd our plains ". 831

Written on the Blank Space of a Leaf at the End

of Chaucer's Tale of “The Flowre and the

332

On the Sea..

832

On Leigh Hunt's Poem, the “ Story of Rimini 833

When I have fears that I may cease to be 333

To Homer.....

334

Answer to a Sonnet by J. H. Reynolds.

334

To J. H. Reynolds..

335

To

335

To Sleep.

336

Von Fame

336

On Fame

337

V" Why did I laugh to-night ? No voice will tell” 337

On a Dream..

338

"If by dull rhyines our English must be chain'd” 338

“ The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone 339

“I cry your mercy pity - love - ay, love", 339
Reats's Last Sonnet.

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