To Autumn by John Keats
To Autumn by John Keats Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;...
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The Tree by Anne Finch
The Tree by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720) 1 Fair tree! for thy delightful shade 2 ‘Tis just that some return be made; 3 Sure some return is due from me 4 To...
Alexander’s Feast by John Dryden
ALEXANDER’S FEAST; OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC. AN ODE, IN HONOUR OF ST CECILIA’S DAY by John Dryden 1 ‘Twas at the royal feast, for Persia won By Philip’s warlike son: Aloft in awful...
Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots by Mark Twain
Ode To Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec’d by Mark Twain EIL Editior’s note: Originally appearing in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a work by Emmaline Grangerford (a caricature of Twain’s contemporary Julia A. Moore),...
Ode: Intimations of Immortality by William Wordsworth
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood (1807) by William Wordsworth Begun on March 27, 1802 and finished before 1806, possibly in early 1804. Wordsworth stated that “two years at least passed...
Dejection: An Ode by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
DEJECTION: AN ODE by Samuel Taylor Coleridge WRITTEN APRIL 4, 1802 “Late, late yestreen I saw the new Moon, With the old Moon in her arms; And I fear, I fear, my Master dear!...
Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley
ODE TO THE WEST WIND by Percy Bysshe Shelley (This poem was conceived and chiefly written in a wood that skirts the Arno, near Florence, and on a day when that tempestuous wind, whose...
Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats
ODE ON A GRECIAN URN by John Keats 1. Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than...
Ode on Melancholy by John Keats
ODE ON MELANCHOLY by John Keats 1. No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist Wolf’s-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine; Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kiss’d By nightshade, ruby grape of...
Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE by John Keats 1. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One...
John Keats Poetry
Although poet John Keats wrote only 54 poems before he died at the age of 25, he is remembered as one of the outstanding English Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe...
Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems
Index of Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was a Romantic poet whose contemporaries included Keats and Byron. Although famous for his long work Prometheus Unbound, his genius also shines in...
William Wordsworth Poems
Poems by William Wordsworth William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was an English Romantic poet whose work celebrated the connection between man and nature. He was friends with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and became poet laureate in 1843....
