Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

One Hundred copies printed.

UNIVERSITY PRESS:
WELCH, BIGELOW, AND COMPANY,

CAMBRIDGE.

CONTENTS.

THE LIFE OF KEATS

ENDYMION: A Poetic Romance

LAMIA....

ISABELLA, OR THE POT OF BASIL: A Story, from Boc-

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To some Ladies, on receiving a curious Shell....... 291

On receiving a Copy of Verses from the same Ladies. 293

"Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain".... 303

Ode to a Nightingale

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Ode on a Grecian Urn.

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"O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell"

"How many Bards gild the lapses of Time!'

To G. A. W.....

Written on the day that Mr. Leigh Hunt left Prison. 375

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On leaving some Friends at an early Hour... . 380

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"Keen fitful gusts are whispering here and there".. 381

"To one who has been long in city pent"

On the Grasshopper and Cricket

To Kosciusko....

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SONNETS, (continued.)

"Happy is England! I could be content"

The Human Seasons

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On seeing the Elgin Marbles

To Haydon: with the preceding sonnet.

Written in the Cottage where Burns was born ... ... 391

To the Nile

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On sitting down to read "King Lear" once again.. 393

"Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud".

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

To a Young Lady who sent me a Laurel Crown 420

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

Written on the Blank Space of a Leaf at the End

of Chaucer's Tale of "The Flowre and the

Lefe 99

On the Sea...

On Leigh Hunt's Poem, the "Story of Rimini ",

"When I have fears that I may cease to be",

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66 Why did I laugh to-night? No voice will tell ".. 433

On a Dream

"If by dull rhymes our English must be chain'd" 435

"The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone

"I cry your mercy-pity-love-ay, love"

Keats's Last Sonnet.....

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