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(published in 1817)
Dedication. To Leigh Hunt
«I stood tip-toe upon a little hill.»
Specimen of an Induction to a Poem
Calidore. A Fragment
To some Ladies
On receiving a curious Shell, and a Copy of Verses, from the same Ladies
To * * * * [Georgiana Augusta Wylie, afterwards Mrs. George Keats]
To Hope
Imtiation of Spenser
« Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain»

Epistles
To George Felton Mathew
To my Brother George
To Charles Cowden Clarke

Sonnets
I. To my Brother George
II. To * * * * * * [«Had I a mans's fair form»]
III. Written on the day that Mr. Leigh Hunt left Prison
IV. «How many bards gild the lapses of time!»
V. To a Friend who sent me some Roses
VI. To G. A. W. [Georgiana Augusta Wylie]
VII. O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell,
VIII. To my Brothers
IX. Keen, fitful gusts are whisp'ring here and there
X. To one who has been long in city pent
XI. On first looking into Chapmans's Homer
XII. On leaving some Friends at an early Hour
XIII. Addressed to Haydon
XIV. Addressed to the same
XV. On the Grasshopper an Cricket
XVI. To Kosciusko
XVII. «Happy is England!»

Lamia, Isabella, &c.

(published 1820)
Lamia Part I
Lamia Part II
Isabella; or, the Pot of Basil
The Eve of St. Agnes
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode to Psyche
Fancy
Ode [«Bards of Passion and of Mirth»]
Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
Robin Hood. To a friend.
To Autumn
Ode on Melancholy
Hyperion Part I
Hyperion Part II
Hyperion Part III

Endymion: A Poetic Romance

(published 1818)
Preface by Keats
Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV

Posthumous Poems

On death
Women, Wine, and Snuff
When I have fears that I may cease to be
To Byron
To Chatterton
Ode to Apollo
Sonnet (Oh! how I love,on a fair summer's eve...)
Written in disgust of vulgar superstition
On the Sea
The Poet - A Fragment
Modern Love
A Song of Opposites
To a cat
Lines on seeing a Lock of Milton's Hair
A Song of Opposites
On sitting down to read King Lear once again
In a drear-nighted December
Asleep! O sleep a little while, white pearl!
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
The Human Seasons
Two Sonnets on Fame
Sonnet (When I have Fears that I may cease to be)
Sharing Eve's apple
A draught of Sunshine
To the Nile
To a Lady seen for a few Moments at Vauxhall
The human seasons
Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds
Fragment of an Ode to Maia, written of May Day, 1818
Meg Merrilies
Staffa
Written upon the Top of Ben Nevis
Translation from a Sonnet of Ronsard
To George Keats in America
Stanzas
Ode to Fanny
I had a Dove
Ode on Indolence
Sonnet (Why did I laugh tonight?)
A Dream, after reading Dante's Episode of Paulo and Francesca
La Belle Dame sans Merci
Two Sonnets on Fame
You say you love
The Fall of Hyperion

Further Reading

The Poetry of Keats
by Ralph Richardson (Narrator)
Audio Cassette
1996
Keats surpasses the best of poets in the sensual song of life, ravishing the senses with beauty of phrase and leaving us with a pleasurable and perennial memory of a truly graceful and magnificent wordsmith. The audio includes "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "Ode to a Nightingale," "To Autumn," "When I Have Fears That I May Ceast to Be," "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," and many others.