Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology

Mapping Keats’s Progress
A Critical Chronology

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References to this poem

Where be ye going, you Devon maid

1

Where be ye going, you Devon maid?
And what have ye there i’ the basket?
Ye tight little fairy just fresh from the dairy,
Will ye give me some cream if I ask it?

2

I love your meads, and I love your flowers,
And I love your junkets mainly;
But ’hind the door, I love kissing more —
O look not so disdainly!

3

I love your hills, and I love your dales,
And I love your flocks a-bleating —
But O on the hether to lie together,
With both our hearts a-beating.

4

I’ll put your basket all safe in a nook
And your shawl I hang up on this willow,
And we will sigh in the daisy’s eye
And kiss on a grass green pillow.

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MLA Style: Works Cited

Keats, John. “Where be ye going, you Devon maid.” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, by G. Kim Blank. Edition 3.27 , University of Victoria, 19 August 2024. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_where_be_ye_going_you_devon.html.

Chicago Style: Note

John Keats, “Where be ye going, you Devon maid,” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, Edition 3.27 , last modified 19th August 2024. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_where_be_ye_going_you_devon.html.

Chicago Style: Bibliography

Keats, John. “Where be ye going, you Devon maid.” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, Edition 3.27 , last modified 19th August 2024. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_where_be_ye_going_you_devon.html.