Poems

John Keats

Poems (1817) is John Keats’ first publication of poems. It includes, among light-occluding others, his Sleep and Poetry — from which this suckled quote was sucked:

Stop and consider! life is but a day;
A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way
From a tree’s summit; a poor Indian’s sleep
While his boat hastens to the monstrous steep
Of Montmorenci.

page contents

  1. Contents
  2. Source

Contents

  1. Title Page.
  2. DEDICATION. TO LEIGH HUNT, ESQ.
  3. POEMS.
    1. STORY OF RIMINI.
    2. SPECIMEN OF AN INDUCTION TO A POEM.
    3. CALIDORE. A Fragment.
    4. TO SOME LADIES.
    5. On receiving a curious Shell, and a Copy of Verses, from the same Ladies.
    6. TO * * * *.
    7. TO HOPE.
    8. IMITATION OF SPENSER.
  4. EPISTLES.
    1. TO GEORGE FELTON MATHEW.
    2. TO MY BROTHER GEORGE.
    3. TO CHARLES COWDEN CLARKE.
  5. SONNETS.
    1. I. TO MY BROTHER GEORGE.
    2. II. TO * * * * * *.
    3. III. Written on the day that Mr. Leigh Hunt left Prison.
    4. IV.
    5. V. To a Friend who sent me some Roses.
    6. VI. To G. A. W.
    7. VII.
    8. VIII. TO MY BROTHERS.
    9. IX.
    10. X.
    11. XI. On first looking into Chapman’s Homer.
    12. XII. On leaving some Friends at an early Hour.
    13. XIII. ADDRESSED TO HAYDON.
    14. XIV. ADDRESSED TO THE SAME.
    15. XV. On the Grasshopper and Cricket.
    16. XVI. TO KOSCIUSKO.
    17. XVII.
  6. SLEEP AND POETRY.

Source

Various sources abound; but, given Keats’ ambiguous (and, dare we declare it, vaingloriously big) name for this publication — PoemsRaiazome surveys the following sources for it: