John Keats Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the mystery of his life, a life like the scriptures, figurative.

  John Keats

  Life, Eye, Men

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.29

• The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.

  John Keats

  Eye, His Eyes, Purpose

  Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 19 March 1819, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 80

• 'Tis the witching hour of night,
  Orbed is the moon and bright.
  And the stars they glisten, glisten,
  Seeming with bright eyes to listen-
  For what listen they?

  John Keats

  Stars, Eye, Science

  John Keats (1867). “The Life and Letters of John Keats”, p.196

• Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.

  John Keats

  Eye, Bored, Pensive

  John Keats, Jack Stillinger (1982). “Complete Poems”, p.359, Harvard University Press

• Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne, Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific, and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise, Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

  John Keats

  Eye, Men, Islands

  "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" l. 5 (1817)

• I should write for the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful, even if my night's labors should be burnt every morning and no eye shine upon them.

  John Keats

  Beautiful, Morning, Writing

  John Keats, Baron Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton (1848). “Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats”, p.150

• Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise!Vanishd unseasonably

  John Keats

  War, Flower, Eye

  John Keats, Jack Stillinger (1982). “Complete Poems”, p.374, Harvard University Press

• To Hope "When by my solitary hearth I sit, And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom; When no fair dreams before my 'mind's eye' flit, And the bare heath of life presents no bloom; Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed, And wave thy silver pinions o'er my head.

  John Keats

  Dream, Sweet, Eye

  John Keats (1841). “The poetical works of John Keats”, p.195

• Closer of lovely eyes to lovely dreams, Lover of loneliness, and wandering, Of upcast eye, and tender pondering! Thee must I praise above all other glories That smile us on to tell delightful stories.

  John Keats

  Dream, Loneliness, Eye

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.36, Harvard University Press

• Let us away, my love, with happy speed; There are no ears to hear, or eyes to see, - Drown'd all in Rhenish and the sleepy mead. Awake! arise! my love and fearless be, For o'er the southern moors I have a home for thee.

  John Keats

  Home, Eye, Southern

  John Keats (2015). “The Complete Poetry of John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn + Ode to a Nightingale + Hyperion + Endymion + The Eve of St. Agnes + Isabella + Ode to Psyche + Lamia + Sonnets and more from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.660, e-artnow

• O let me lead her gently o'er the brook, Watch her half-smiling lips and downward look; O let me for one moment touch her wrist; Let me one moment to her breathing list; And as she leaves me, may she often turn Her fair eyes looking through her locks auburne.

  John Keats

  Eye, Breathing, Watches

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.36, Harvard University Press

• And how they kist each other's tremulous eyes.

  John Keats

  Eye

  John Keats (2010). “Bright Star: The Complete Poems and Selected Letters”, p.7, Random House

• His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed.

  John Keats

  Eye, Hands, Lays

  John Keats, Jack Stillinger (1982). “Complete Poems”, p.24, Harvard University Press

• Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies!

  John Keats

  Sleep, Eye, Lows

  John Keats (1925). “Poetical Works”

• Dry your eyes O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies.

  John Keats

  Eye, Ease, Dry

  'Shed no tear - O shed no tear' (written 1819)

• Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for a knowledge of what is not to be arrived at, but let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive, budding patiently under the eye of Apollo, and taking hints from every noble insect that favours us with a visit - sap will be given us for meat and dew for drink.

  John Keats

  Flower, Knowledge, Eye

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.63, Oxford University Press, USA

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