| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | I Had a Dove | | By John Keats (1795–1821) |
| | | I HAD a dove and the sweet dove died; | |
| And I have thought it died of grieving: | |
| O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied, | |
| With a silken thread of my own hand’s weaving; | |
| Sweet little red feet! why should you die— | 5 |
| Why should you leave me, sweet bird! why? | |
| You liv’d alone in the forest tree, | |
| Why, pretty thing! would you not live with me? | |
| I kiss’d you oft and gave you white peas; | |
| Why not live sweetly, as in the green trees? | 10 | | | |
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