Introduction
Note to the Third Edition
Acknowledgements
Tables of Dates
Further Reading--Imitation of Spenser
--On Peace
--'Fill for me a brimming bowl'
--To Lord Byron
--'As from the darkening gloom a silver dove'
--'Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream'
--To Chatterton
--Written on the Day that Mr Leigh Hunt left Prison
--To Hope
--Ode to Apollo ('In thy western halls of gold')
--Lines Written on 29 May The Anniversary of the Restoration of Charles the 2nd
--To Some Ladies
--On Receiving a Curious Shell, and a Copy of Verses, from the Same Ladies
--To Emma
--Song ('Stay, ruby-breasted warbler, stay')
--'Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain'
--'O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell'
--To George Felton Mathew
--To [Mary Frogley]
--To --- ('Had I a man's fair form, then might my sighs')
--'Give me Women, Wine, and Snuff'
--Specimen of an Introduction to a Poem
--Calidore. A Fragment
--'To one who has been long in city pent'
--'O! how I love, on a fair summer's eve'
--To a Friend who Sent me some Roses
--To my Brother George ('Many the wonders I this day have seen')
--To my Brother George ('Full many a dreary hour have I passed')
--To Charles Cowden Clarke
--'How many bards gild the lapses of time!'
--On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
--To a Young Lady who sent me a Laurel Crown
--On Leaving some Friends at an Early Hour
--'Keen, fitful gusts are whispering here and there'
--Addressed to Haydon
--To my Brothers
--Addressed to [Haydon]
--'I stood tip-toe upon a little hill'
--Sleep and Poetry
--Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition
--On the Grasshopper and Cricket
--To Kosciusko
--To G[eorgiana] A[ugusta] W[ylie]
--'Happy is England! I could be content'
--'After dark vapours have oppressed our plains'
--To Leigh Hunt, Esq.
--Written on a Blank Space at the End of Chaucer's Tale of 'The Floure and the Leafe'
--On Receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt
--To the Ladies who Saw Me Crowned
--Ode to Apollo ('God of the golden bow')
--On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
--To B. R. Haydon, with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles
--On 'The Story of Rimini'
--On a Leander Gem which Miss Reynolds, my Kind Friend, Gave Me
--On the Sea
--Lines ('Unfelt, unheard, unseen')
--Stanzas ('You say you love; but with a voice')
--'Hither, hither, love ---'
--Lines Rhymed in a Letter Received (by J. H. Reynolds) From Oxford
--'Think not of it, sweet one, so --'
--Endymion: A Poetic Romance
--'In drear-nighted December'
--Nebuchadnezzar's Dream
--Apollo to the Graces
--To Mrs Reynolds's Cat
--On Seeing a Lock of Milton's Hair. Ode
--On Sitting Down to Read 'King Lear' Once Again
--'When I have fears that I may cease to be'
--'O blush not so! O blush not so!'
--'Hence Burgundy, Claret, and Port'
--'God of the meridian'
--Robin Hood
--Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
--To --- ('Time's sea hath been five years at its slow ebb')
--To the Nile
--'Spenser! a jealous honourer of thine'
--'Blue! 'Tis the life of heaven, the domain'
--'O thou whose face hath felt the Winter's wind'
--Sonnet to A[ubrey] G[eorge] S[pencer]
Extracts from an Opera:
--i 'O! were I one of the Olympian twelve'
--ii Daisy's Song
--iii Folly's Song
--iv 'O, I am frightened with most hateful thoughts'
--v Song ('The stranger lighted from his steed')
--vi 'Asleep! O sleep a little while, white pearl!'
--The Human Seasons
--'For there's Bishop's Teign'
--'Where be ye going, you Devon maid?'
--'Over the hill and over the dale'
--To J. H. Reynolds, Esq.
--To J[ames] R[ice]
--Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil
--To Homer
--Ode to May. Fragment
--Acrostic
--'Sweet, sweet is the greeting of eyes'
--On Visiting the Tomb of Burns
--'Old Meg she was a gipsy'
--A Song about Myself
--'Ah! ken ye what I met the day'
--To Ailsa Rock
--'This mortal body of a thousand days'
--'All gentle folks who owe a grudge'
--'Of late two dainties were before me placed'
--Lines Written in the Highlands after a Visit to Burns's Country
--On Visiting Staffa
--'Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud'
--'Upon my life, Sir Nevis, I am piqued'
--Stanzas on some Skulls in Beauly Abbey, near Inverness
--Translated from Ronsard
--''Tis "the witching time of night"'
--'Welcome joy, and welcome sorrow'
--Song ('Spirit here that reignest')
--'Where's the Poet? Show him, show him'
--Fragment of the 'Castle Builder'
--'And what is love? It is a doll dressed up'
--Hyperion. A Fragment
--Fancy
--Ode ('Bards of Passion and of Mirth')
--Song ('I had a dove and the sweet dove died')
--Song ('Hush, hush! tread softly! hush, hush my dear!')
--The Eve of St Agnes
--The Eve of St Mark
--'Gif ye wol stonden hardie wight'
--'Why did I laugh tonight?'
--Faery Bird's Song ('Shed no tear - O, shed no tear!')
--Faery Song ('Ah! woe is me! poor silver-wing!')
--'When they were come unto the Faery's Court'
--'The House of Mourning written by Mr Scott'
--Character of Charles Brown
--A Dream, after reading Dante's Episode of Paolo and Francesca
--La Belle Dame sans Merci. A Ballad
--Song of Four Faeries
--To Sleep
--'If by dull rhymes our English must be chained'
--Ode to Psyche
--On Fame (I) ('Fame, like a wayward girl, will still be coy')
--On Fame (II) ('How fevered is the man who cannot look')
--'Two or three posies'
--Ode on a Grecian Urn
--Ode to a Nightingale
--Ode on Melancholy
--Ode on Indolence
--Otho the Great. A Tragedy in Five Acts
--Lamia
--'Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes'
--To Autumn
--The Fall of Hyperion. A Dream
--'The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone'
--'What can I do to drive away'
--'I cry your mercy, pity, love - ay, love'
--'Bright star! would I were as steadfast as thou art'
--King Stephen. A Fragment of a Tragedy
--'This living hand, now warm and capable'
--The Cap and Bells; or, The Jealousies
--To Fanny
--'In after-time, a sage of mickle lore'
--Three Undated Fragments
Doubtful Attributions--'See, the ship in the bay is riding'
--The Poet
--Gripus
Appendix 1: Wordsworth and Hazlitt on the Origins of Greek Mythology
Appendix 2: The Two Prefaces to 'Endymion'
Appendix 3: The Order of Poems in 'Poems' (1817) and 'Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and Other Poems' (1820)
and
The Publisher's Advertisement for 1820
Appendix 4: Keats's Notes on Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
Appendix 5: Keats on Kean's Shakespearean Acting
Appendix 6: Selection of Keats's Letters
Notes
Dictionary of Classical Names
Index of Titles
Index of First Lines