7 mp op e. CONTENTS. ISABELLA, OR THE POT OF BASIL: A Story, from Boc- Dedication to Leigh Hunt, Esq. " I stood tiptoe upon a little Hill". Specimen of an Induction to a Poem. To some Ladies, on receiving a curious Shell....... 291 On receiving a Copy of Verses from the same Ladies. 293 To a Friend who sent me some Roses “O Solitude! if I must with thce dwell” “How many Bards gild the lapses of Time! Written on the day that Mr. Leigh Hunt left Prison. 375 On first looking into Chapman's Homer On leaving some Friends at an early Hour... “Keen fitful gusts are whispering here and there”.. 381. - To one who has been long in city pent Pago “Happy is England! I could be content" To Haydon: with the preceding sonnet Written in the Cottage where Burns was born On sitting down to read “ King Lear” once again “Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud”.. +La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad The Eve of St. Mark. (Unfinished). "Oh! how I love, on a fair summer's eve To a Young Lady who sent me a Laurel Crown “ After dark vapors have oppress'd our plains ✓ THE LIFE OF KEATS. THERE are few poets whose works contain slighter hints of their personal history than those of Keats ; yet there are, perhaps, even fewer, whose real lives, or rather the conditions upon which they lived, are more clearly traceable in what they have written. To write the life of a man was formerly understood to mean the cataloguing and placing of circumstances, of those things which stood about the life and were more or less related to it, but were not the life itself. But Biography from day to day holds dates cheaper and facts dearer. A man's life, (as far as its outward events are concerned,) may be made for him, as his clothes are by the tailor, of this cut or that, of finer or coarser material, but the gait and gesture show through, and give to trappings, in themselves characterless, an individuality that belongs to the man himself. It is those essential facts which underlie the life and make the individual man, that are of importance, and it is the cropping out of these upon the surface, that |