John Keats, selected poems Contents
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Author(s)
- Keats, John
- ‘Bright Star! Would I were steadfast as thou art’
- Eve of St Agnes, The
- ‘Hush, hush! tread softly! hush, hush, my dear!’
- Isabella, or The Pot of Basil
- La Belle Dame sans Merci
- Lamia
- Lines to Fanny
- O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell
- Ode on a Grecian Urn
- Ode on Indolence
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Ode to Autumn
- Ode to Melancholy
- Ode to Psyche
- On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
- On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
- On the Sea
- Sleep and Poetry
- ‘Time’s sea hath been five years at its slow ebb’
- To Ailsa Rock
- To Leigh Hunt, Esq.
- To Mrs Reynold's Cat
- To My Brothers
- To Sleep
- When I have fears that I may cease to be
‘Hush, hush! tread softly! hush, hush, my dear!’
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Hush, hush! tread softly! hush, hush my dear!
All the house is asleep, but we know very well
That the jealous, the jealous old bald-pate may hear.
Tho' you've padded his night-cap - O sweet Isabel!
Tho' your feet are more light than a Fairy's feet, (5)
Who dances on bubbles where brooklets meet -
Hush, hush! soft tiptoe! hush, hush my dear!
For less than a nothing the jealous can hear.
2
No leaf doth tremble, no ripple is there
On the river - all's still, and the night's sleepy eye (10)
Closes up, and forgets all its Lethean care,
Charm'd to death by the drone of the humming May-fly;
And the Moon, whether prudish or complaisant,
Hath fled to her bower, well knowing I want
No light in the dusk, no torch in the gloom, (15)
But my Isabel's eyes, and her lips pulp'd with bloom.
3
Lift the latch! ah gently! ah tenderly - sweet!
We are dead if that latchet gives one little chink!
Well done - now those lips, and a flowery seat --
The old man may sleep, and the planets may wink; (20)
The shut rose shall dream of our loves, and awake
Full blown, and such warmth for the morning's take;
The stock-dove shall hatch her soft brace and shall coo,
While I kiss to the melody, aching all through!
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