8 iconic lines by English romantic poets

Jul 22, 2024

Aakanksha Sharma

Iconic lines to read

Romantic poets have forever been known as the ‘Speakers of the heart’. They pen down such deep, romantic, and soulful words that it melts the strongest hearts and makes the toughest ones cry. Here we list 9 iconic lines by English romantic poets.

​‘A Thing of Beauty’ by John Keats

“A thing of beauty is a joy foreverIts loveliness increases, it will neverPass into nothingness”

​‘She Walks in Beauty’ by Lord Byron

“She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that’s best of dark and brightMeet in her aspect and her eyes;”

​‘The flower that smiles to-day’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Virtue, how frail it is!Friendship how rare!Love, how it sells poor blissFor proud despair!But we, though soon they fall,Survive their joy, and allWhich ours we call.”

​‘The Stars are Mansions’ by William Wordsworth

“The stars are mansions built by Nature’s hand,And, haply, there the spirits of the blestDwell, clothed in radiance, their immortal vest;Huge Ocean shows, within his yellow strand,A habitation marvellously planned,For life to occupy in love and rest;”

​‘Auguries of Innocence’ by William Blake

“To see a World in a Grain of SandAnd a Heaven in a Wild FlowerHold Infinity in the palm of your handAnd Eternity in an hourA Robin Red breast in a CagePuts all Heaven in a Rage”

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‘Love’s Philosophy’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley

“And the sunlight clasps the earthAnd the moonbeams kiss the sea:What is all this sweet work worthIf thou kiss not me?”

‘Fancy’ by John Keats

“Ever let the Fancy roam,Pleasure never is at home:At a touch sweet Pleasure melteth,Like to bubbles when rain pelteth;”

‘About The Nightingale’ by ST Coleridge

“In stale blank verse a subject staleI send per post my Nightingale;And like an honest bard, dear Wordsworth,You’ll tell me what you think, my Bird’s worth.”

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