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“And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon.”

John Keats The Eve of St. Agnes

Stanza 30
Poems (1820), The Eve of St. Agnes

“Tis the pest
Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.”

John Keats Endymion

Bk. II, l. 365
Endymion (1818)

“Forlorn! the very word is like a bell
To toil me back from thee to my sole self!”

John Keats Ode to a Nightingale

Stanza 8
Poems (1820), Ode to a Nightingale

“So many, and so many, and such glee.”

John Keats Endymion

Bk. IV
Endymion (1818)

“They will explain themselves — as all poems should do without any comment.”

John Keats

Letter to George Keats (1818)
Letters (1817–1820)

“Love in a hut, with water and a crust,
Is — Love, forgive us! — cinders, ashes, dust.”

John Keats Lamia

"Lamia", Pt. II, l. 1
Poems (1820)

“He ne'er is crown'd
With immortality, who fears to follow
Where airy voices lead.”

John Keats Endymion

Bk. II, l. 211
Endymion (1818)

“And for her eyes: what could such eyes do there
But weep, and weep, that they were born so fair?”

John Keats Lamia

"Lamia", Pt. I, l. 61
Poems (1820)

“And there shall be for thee all soft delight
That shadowy thought can win,
A bright torch, and a casement ope at night,
To let the warm Love in!”

John Keats Ode to Psyche

"Ode to Psyche", st. 5
Poems (1820)

“As when, upon a tranced summer-night,
Those green-rob’d senators of mighty woods,
Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars,
Dream, and so dream all night without a stir,
Save from one gradual solitary gust
Which comes upon the silence, and dies off,
As if the ebbing air had but one wave.”

John Keats

Bk. I, l. 72
Hyperion: A Fragment (1819)

“To his sight
The husk of natural objects opens quite
To the core; and every secret essence there
Reveals the elements of good and fair;
Making him see, where Learning hath no light.”

John Keats

"The Poet," London Magazine (Oct 1821)

“At once it struck me what quality went to form a man of achievement, especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”

John Keats Letter to George and Thomas Keats

Letter to George and Thomas Keats (December 22, 1817)
Letters (1817–1820)

“The silver snarling trumpets 'gan to chide.”

John Keats The Eve of St. Agnes

Stanza 4
Poems (1820), The Eve of St. Agnes

“O, what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has wither'd from the lake,
And no birds sing.”

John Keats book La Belle Dame sans Merci

Stanza I
La Belle Dame sans Merci (1819)

“Works of genius are the first things in this world.”

John Keats

Letter to G. and F. Keats (January 13, 1818)
Letters (1817–1820)

“She hurried at his words, beset with fears,
For there were sleeping dragons all around,
At glaring watch, perhaps, with ready spears —
Down the wide stairs a darkling way they found. —
In all the house was heard no human sound.
A chain-droop’d lamp was flickering by each door;
The arras, rich with horseman, hawk, and hound,
Flutter’d in the besieging wind’s uproar;
And the long carpets rose along the gusty floor.”

John Keats The Eve of St. Agnes

Stanza 40
Poems (1820), The Eve of St. Agnes

“Call the world if you please "The vale of soul-making."”

John Keats

Letter to George and Georgiana Keats (April 21, 1819)
Letters (1817–1820)

“A drainless shower
Of light is poesy; ’tis the supreme of power;
’Tis might half slumb’ring on its own right arm.”

John Keats Sleep and Poetry

"Sleep and Poetry", st. 11
Poems (1817)

“Souls of Poets dead and gone,
What Elysium have ye known,
Happy field or mossy cavern,
Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?”

John Keats

"Lines on the Mermaid Tavern", l. 1–4
Poems (1820)

“Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies.”

John Keats To Autumn

"To Autumn", st. 3
Poems (1820)