John Keats (1795–1821) was an English Romantic poet from London who, in a writing life of barely six years, produced some of the best-loved poems in the language. His great odes of 1819—“Ode to a Nightingale,” “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” “To Autumn,” “Ode on Melancholy,” and “Ode to Psyche”—together with sonnets such as “Bright Star” and “When I Have Fears” and the ballad “La Belle Dame sans Merci,” turn on beauty, mortality, longing, and the power of the imagination.
Read a fuller life sketch on our About John Keats page. This Poetry Catalog archive gathers 49 poems by Keats now live on the site—listed alphabetically below, with links to each full text. The texts follow the public domain Project Gutenberg editions of his Poems (1817) and Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems (1820), and new poems are added to this list as they are published.
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John Keats Poems
- Addressed To Haydon
- Ah! Who Can E'er Forget So Fair A Being?
- Bards Of Passion And Of Mirth
- Bright Star
- Calidore: A Fragment
- The Eve Of St. Agnes
- Fancy
- Great Spirits Now On Earth Are Sojourning
- Had I A Man's Fair Form
- Hadst Thou Liv'd In Days Of Old
- Happy Is England!
- How Many Bards Gild The Lapses Of Time!
- I Stood Tip-Toe Upon A Little Hill
- Imitation Of Spenser
- Isabella; Or, The Pot Of Basil
- Keen, Fitful Gusts Are Whisp'ring Here And There
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci
- Lamia: Part I
- Lamia: Part II
- Light Feet, Dark Violet Eyes, And Parted Hair
- Lines On The Mermaid Tavern
- O Solitude! If I Must With Thee Dwell
- Ode On A Grecian Urn
- Ode On Melancholy
- Ode To A Nightingale
- Ode To Psyche
- On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer
- On Leaving Some Friends At An Early Hour
- On Receiving A Curious Shell, And A Copy Of Verses, From The Same Ladies
- On The Grasshopper And Cricket
- Robin Hood
- Sleep And Poetry
- Specimen Of An Induction To A Poem
- Time's Sea Hath Been Five Years At Its Slow Ebb
- To A Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses
- To Autumn
- To Charles Cowden Clarke
- To G. A. W.
- To George Felton Mathew
- To Hope
- To Kosciusko
- To My Brother George (Epistle)
- To My Brother George (Sonnet)
- To My Brothers
- To One Who Has Been Long In City Pent
- To Some Ladies
- When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be
- Woman! When I Behold Thee Flippant, Vain
- Written On The Day That Mr. Leigh Hunt Left Prison