John Keats Quotes About Heaven

Quotes about: Heaven

• Health is my expected heaven.

  John Keats

  Health, Heaven, Expected

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.161

• To one who has been long in city pent, ’Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament.

  John Keats

  Sweet, Nature, Prayer

  "To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent" l. 1 (1817)

• When the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, And hides the green hill in an April shroud; Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose.

  John Keats

  Morning, Flower, Fall

  'Ode on Melancholy' (1820) st. 2

• Four Seasons fill the measure of the year; There are four seasons in the mind of man: He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear Takes in all beauty with an easy span: He has his Summer, when luxuriously Spring's honey'd cud of youthful thought he loves To ruminate, and by such dreaming high Is nearest unto heaven: quiet coves His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings He furleth close; contented so to look On mists in idleness—to let fair things Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook. He has his Winter too of pale misfeature, Or else he would forego his mortal nature.

  John Keats

  Summer, Dream, Spring

  John Keats (1847). “The Poetical Works of John Keats”, p.244

• Their woes gone by, and both to heaven upflown, To bow for gratitude before Jove's throne.

  John Keats

  Gratitude, Heaven, Thrones

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.38, Harvard University Press

• But let me see thee stoop from heaven on wings That fill the sky with silver glitterings!

  John Keats

  Sky, Wings, Heaven

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume”

• Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven!

  John Keats

  Lying, Essence, Space

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats: Hyperion (Unabridged): An Epic Poem from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets, best known for his Odes, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Indolence, Ode to Psyche, Ode to Fanny, Lamia and more”, p.129, e-artnow

• Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Have ye souls in heaven too, Double-lived in regions new?

  John Keats

  Passion, Heaven, Soul

  'Bards of Passion and of Mirth' (1820)

• There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

  John Keats

  Depression, Philosophy, Angel

  'Lamia' (1820) pt. 2, l. 229

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