John Keats Quotes About Sleep

Quotes about: Sleep

• was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music--do I wake or sleep?

  John Keats

  Love, Dream, Sleep

  'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 8

• Shed no tear - O, shed no tear!
  The flower will bloom another year.
  Weep no more - O, weep no more!
  Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

  John Keats

  Death, Flower, Sleep

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.140, Harvard University Press

• A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

  John Keats

  Love, Life, Beauty

  Endymion bk. 1, l. 1 (1818)

• O magic sleep! O comfortable bird, That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind Till it is hush'd and smooth!

  John Keats

  Sleep, Sea, Bird

  Harry Buxton Forman, John Keats (1817). “The complete works of John Keats”, p.86

• She hurried at his words, beset with fears, For there were sleeping dragons all around.

  John Keats

  Sleep, Dragons

  John Keats (1994). “The Works of John Keats: With an Introduction and Bibliography”, p.217, Wordsworth Editions

• Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? ---"On death

  John Keats

  Dream, Sleep, Phantoms

  John Keats (1818). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.165

• Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music:--do I wake or sleep?

  John Keats

  Dream, Sleep, Past

  'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 8

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

  John Keats

  Sleep, Eye, Lows

  John Keats (1925). “Poetical Works”

• My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.

  John Keats

  Death, Sleep, Eagles

  John Keats (1818). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.178

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