Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology

Mapping Keats’s Progress
A Critical Chronology

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References to this poem

For there’s Bishop’s Teign

1

For there’s Bishop’s Teign
And King’s Teign
And Coomb at the clear Teign head —
Where close by the stream
You may have your cream
All spread upon barley bread.

2

There’s Arch Brook
And there’s Larch Brook
Both turning many a mill
And cooling the drouth
Of the salmon’s mouth
And fattening his silver gill.

3

There is Wild Wood,
A mild hood
To the sheep on the lea o’ the down,
Where the golden furze
With its green thin spurs,
Doth catch at the maiden’s gown.

4

There is Newton Marsh
With its spear grass harsh —
A pleasant summer level
Where the maidens sweet
Of the Market Street
Do meet in the dusk to revel.

5
There’s the barton rich
With dyke and ditch
And hedge for the thrush to live in,
And the hollow tree
For the buzzing bee,
And a bank for the wasp to hive in.

6

And O, and O
The daisies blow,
And the primroses are waken’d,
And the violet white
Sits in silver plight,
And the green bud’s as long as the spike end.

7

Then who would go
Into dark Soho
And chatter with dack’d-hair’d critics,
When he can stay
For the new-mown hay
And startle the dappled prickets?

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MLA Style: Works Cited

Keats, John. “For there’s Bishop’s Teign.” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, by G. Kim Blank. Edition 3.28 , University of Victoria, 24 September 2026. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_for_theres_bishops_teign.html.

Chicago Style: Note

John Keats, “For there’s Bishop’s Teign,” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, Edition 3.28 , last modified 24th September 2026. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_for_theres_bishops_teign.html.

Chicago Style: Bibliography

Keats, John. “For there’s Bishop’s Teign.” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, Edition 3.28 , last modified 24th September 2026. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_for_theres_bishops_teign.html.