PUBLISHERS' NOTE

THE editor of the Cambridge Edition of The Complete Poetical Works and Letters of John Keats made a careful examination of the volumes published by Keats during his life, and also of the posthumously published poems, with a view to securing an authoritative text. He also studied an arrangement of the poetical works which should be chronological as regards the body of his poetry, and should discriminate in a measure between his serious and acknowledged work and his pastime. The arrangement and the text of this Cabinet Edition are those of the Cambridge, and the contents include the whole of Keats's verse.

Autumn, 1900.

'WOMAN! WHEN I BEHOLD THEE FLIPPANT, VAIN'

TO SOME LADIES

ON RECEIVING A CURIOUS SHELL AND A COPY OF VERSES

FROM THE SAME LADIES.

WRITTEN ON THE DAY THAT MR. LEIGH HUNT LEFT PRISON

TO HOPE.

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To A YOUNG LADY WHO SENT ME A LAUREL CROWN

SONNET: HOW MANY BARDS GILD THE LAPSES OF TIME

SONNET: KEEN, FITFUL GUSTS ARE WHISP'RING HERE AND

THERE'

SPENSERIAN STANZA, WRITTEN AT THE CLOSE OF CANTO II.,

BOOK V., OF THE FAERIE QUEENE'

ON LEAVING SOME FRIENDS AT AN EARLY HOUR

ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER

EPISTLE TO GEORGE FELTON MATHEW

To:'HADST THOU LIV'D IN DAYS OF OLD'

SONNET: AS FROM THE DARKENING GLOOM A SILVER DOVE

SONNET TO SOLITUDE

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SONNET: TO ONE WHO HAS BEEN LONG IN CITY PENT'

TO A FRIEND WHO SENT ME SOME ROSES

SONNET: OH! HOW I LOVE, ON A FAIR SUMMER'S EVE

'I STOOD TIPTOE UPON A LITTLE HILL'

'HAD I A MAN'S FAIR FORM, THEN MIGHT MY SIGHS'

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ADDRESSED TO BENJAMIN ROBERT HAYDON.

I. GREAT SPIRITS NOW ON EARTH ARE SOJOURNING'

II. 'HIGHMINDEDNESS, A JEALOUSY FOR GOOD'

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TO KOSCIUSKO

To G. A. W.

STANZAS: IN A DREAR-NIGHTED DECEMBER'

WRITTEN IN DISGUST OF VULGAR SUPERSTITION

SONNET: HAPPY IS ENGLAND! I COULD BE CONTENT

ON THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET

SONNET:

AFTER DARK VAPOURS HAVE OPPRESS'D OUR PLAINS

WRITTEN ON THE BLANK SPACE AT THE END OF CHAUCER'S

TALE OF THE FLOURE AND THE LEFE'

ON SEEING THE ELGIN MARBLES

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TO HAYDON (WITH THE PRECEDING SONNET)

TO LEIGH HUNT, ESQ.

ON THE SEA

LINES: UNFELT, UNHEARD, UNSEEN

ON

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'THINK NOT OF IT, SWEET ONE, SO'

ON A PICTURE OF LEANDER

ON LEIGH HUNT'S POEM THE STORY OF RIMINI '

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SONNET: WHEN I HAVE FEARS THAT I MAY CEASE TO BE'

ON SEEING A LOCK OF MILTON'S HAIR

ON SITTING DOWN TO READ KING LEAR' ONCE AGAIN.

LINES ON THE MERMAID TAVERN

SONG WRITTEN ON A BLANK PAGE IN BEAUMONT AND FLETCH-

ER'S WORKS BETWEEN CUPID'S REVENGE' AND 'THE TWO

NOBLE KINSMEN'

FRAGMENT: WELCOME JOY AND WELCOME SORROW

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WHAT THE THRUSH SAID

WRITTEN IN ANSWER TO A SONNET ENDING THUS:-

SONG: HUSH, HUSH! TREAD SOFTLY! HUSH, HUSH, MY DEAR!' 210

VERSES WRITTEN DURING A TOUR IN SCOTLAND.

I. ON VISITING THE TOMB OF BURNS

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II. TO AILSA ROCK.

211

III. WRITTEN IN THE COTTAGE WHERE BURNS WAS BORN

IV. AT FINGAL'S CAVE.

FANCY.

TRANSLATION FROM A SONNET OF RONSARD.

To A LADY SEEN FOR A FEW MOMENTS AT VAUXHALL.

ODE: BARDS OF PASSION AND OF MIRTH

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SONG: 'I HAD A DOVE AND THE SWEET DOVE DIED

. 219

SONNET: WHY DID I LAUGH TO-NIGHT? NO VOICE WILL

TELL

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ODE TO FANNY

238

A DREAM, AFTER READING DANTE'S EPISODE OF PAOLO AND

FRANCESCA

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SONNET: IF BY DULL RHYMES OUR ENGLISH MUST BE CHAIN'D' 251

ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE .

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LAMIA

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DRAMAS.

OTHO THE GREAT: A TRAGEDY IN FIVE ACTS

KING STEPHEN: A DRAMATIC FRAGMENT.

VERSES TO FANNY BRAWNE.

SONNET: 'THE DAY IS GONE AND ALL ITS SWEETS ARE GONE' 379

LINES TO FANNY

TO FANNY: 'I CRY YOUR MERCY - PITY-LOVE- AYE, LOVE!' 381

THE CAP AND BELLS; OR, THE JEALOUSIES

I. 'WHERE'S THE POET? SHOW HIM! SHOW HIM

II. MODERN LOVE