- But when the melancholy fit shall fall
- Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud
- In the first stanza of ‘Ode on Melancholy,’ Keats lists what not to do when beset by melancholy; this is also, perhaps, why the earlier first stanza was rejected.
- Born in 1795, John Keats was an English Romantic poet and author of three poems considered to be among the finest in the English language.
- 'Ay, in the very temple of Delight, / Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine': this ode articulates the paradox that lies at the heart of all Keats's poems, namely...
- Ay, in the very temple of Delight Veil’d Melancholy has her sovran shrine, Though seen of none save him whose strenuous tongue Can burst Joy’s grape against his...
- John Keats’s “Ode on Melancholy” is a rich and complex poem that offers a way of responding to deep despair.
- Portrait of John Keats by William Hilton, after Joseph Severn (National Portrait Gallery, London). "Ode on Melancholy" is one of five odes composed by English poet John...
- John Keats’s “Ode on Melancholy” is a rich and complex poem that offers a way of responding to deep despair.
- A poem by John Keats read by Zachariah Wells.
- But 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...