John Keats

Elegy.

Behold the blessings of a lucky lot!
My play is damned, and Lady Noel not.

May 25, 1821.
[First published, Medwin's Conversations, 1824, p. 121.]

Who killed John Keats?
"I," says the Quarterly,
So savage and Tartarly;
"'T was one of my feats."

Who shot the arrow?
"The poet-priest Milman
(So ready to kill man)
"Or Southey, or Barrow."

July 30, 1821.
[First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, ii. 506.]