Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology

Mapping Keats’s Progress
A Critical Chronology

References to this poem

Sweet, sweet is the greeting of eyes

  • Sweet, sweet is the greeting of eyes,
  • And sweet is the voice in its greeting,
  • When adieux have grown old and goodbyes
  • Fade away where old time is retreating.
  • Warm the nerve of a welcoming hand,
  • And earnest a kiss on the brow,
  • When we meet over sea and o’er land
  • Where furrows are new to the plough.

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MLA Style: Works Cited

Keats, John. “Sweet, sweet is the greeting of eyes.” 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_sweet_sweet_is_the_greeting_of.html.

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John Keats, “Sweet, sweet is the greeting of eyes,” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, Edition 3.28 , last modified 24th September 2026. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_sweet_sweet_is_the_greeting_of.html.

Chicago Style: Bibliography

Keats, John. “Sweet, sweet is the greeting of eyes.” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, Edition 3.28 , last modified 24th September 2026. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_sweet_sweet_is_the_greeting_of.html.