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John Keats Quotes about Death

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.

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

Death is Life's high meed.

John Keats, Richard Monckton Milnes Baron Houghton (1848). “Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats”, p.390

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

Quoted in Richard Monckton Milnes, Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats (1848)

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

John Keats (2015). “Sonnets (Complete Edition): 63 Sonnets from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets, influenced by John Milton and Edmund Spenser, and one of the greatest lyric poets in English Literature, alongside William Shakespeare”, p.345, e-artnow

I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave

In a letter from Joseph Severn to John Taylor, 6 March 1821, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 378

I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave--thank God for the quiet grave--O! I can feel the cold earth upon me--the daisies growing over me--O for this quiet--it will be my first.

In a letter from Joseph Severn to John Taylor, 6 March 1821, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 378