Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology

Mapping Keats’s Progress
A Critical Chronology

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References to this poem

O come, dearest Emma! the rose is full blown

1

O come, dearest Emma! the rose is full blown,
The riches of Flora are lavishly strown;
The air is all softness, and crystal the streams,
The west is resplendently cloathed in beams.

2

O come! let us haste to the freshening shades,
The quaintly carv’d seats, and the opening glades;
Where the faeries are chanting their evening hymns,
And in the last sun-beam the sylph lightly swims.

3

And when thou art weary I’ll find thee a bed,
Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head;
There, beauteous Emma, I’ll sit at thy feet,
While my story of love I enraptured repeat.

4

So fondly I’ll breathe, and so softly I’ll sigh,
Thou wilt think that some amorous zephyr is nigh;
Yet no — as I breathe I will press thy fair knee,
And then thou wilt know that the sigh comes from me.

5
Ah! why dearest girl should we lose all these blisses?
That mortal’s a fool who such happiness misses;
So smile acquiescence, and give me thy hand,
With love-looking eyes, and with voice sweetly bland.

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Keats, John. “O come, dearest Emma! the rose is full blown.” 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_o_come_dearest_emma_the_rose.html.

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Chicago Style: Bibliography

Keats, John. “O come, dearest Emma! the rose is full blown.” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, Edition 3.28 , last modified 24th September 2026. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_o_come_dearest_emma_the_rose.html.