Fugitive Poems

By John Keats

John Keats was an English Romantic poet.  Keats was a peer of other great poets such as Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley and his poems have become more popular after his death.  This edition of Fugitive Poems includes a table of contents.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Charles River Editors
• Release date: Mar 22, 2018
• ISBN: 9781531284251

John Keats

Born in London in 1795, John Keats is one of the most popular of the Romantic poets of the 19th century. During his short life his work failed to achieve literary acclaim, but after his death in 1821 his literary reputation steadily gained pace, inspiring many subsequent poets and students alike.

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FUGITIVE POEMS

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John Keats

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Fugitive Poems

The Eve of Saint Mark

When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be

I Stood Tip-Toe Upon a Little Hill

On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again

Lines Rhymed in a Letter From Oxford

How Many Bards Gild the Lapses of Time!

Dedication [Of Poems, 1817] To Leigh Hunt, Esq.

To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent

A Song About Myself

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

Ode on Indolence

TO— (What Can I Do to Drive Away)

Where’s the Poet?

For There’s Bishop’s Teign

O blush not so! O blush not so!

To Mrs Reynolds’s Cat

Over the Hill and Over the Dale

Where be you going, you Devon maid?

Character of Charles Brown

FUGITIVE POEMS

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THE EVE OF SAINT MARK

Upon a Sabbath-day it fell;

Twice holy was the Sabbath-bell

That call’d the folk to evening prayer;

The city streets were clean and fair

From wholesome drench of April rains;

And, on the western window panes,

The chilly sunset faintly told

Of unmatur’d green vallies cold,

Of the green thorny bloomless hedge,

Of rivers new with spring-tide sedge,

Of primroses by shelter’d rills,

And daisies on the aguish hills.

Twice holy was the Sabbath-bell:

The silent streets were