Lyric Poem · Nature
Happy Is England! I Could Be Content
by John Keats
1Happy is England! I could be content
2To see no other verdure than its own;
3To feel no other breezes than are blown
4Through its tall woods with high romances blent;
5Yet do I sometimes feel a languishment
6For skies Italian, and an inward groan
7To sit upon an Alp as on a throne,
8And half forget what world or worldling meant.
9Happy is England, sweet her artless daughters;
10Enough their simple loveliness for me,
11Enough their whitest arms in silence clinging;
12Yet do I often warmly burn to see
13Beauties of deeper glance, and hear their singing,
14And float with them about the summer waters.
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Quick facts
- Poem
- Happy Is England! I Could Be Content
- Poet
- John Keats
- Length
- 14 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- Nature, Summer
Craft notes
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- Shape
- 14 lines · one 14-line stanza
- Line length
- Lines run 9-11 syllables (median 10), consistent with pentameter. No single length dominates, which is normal once elision and contraction are in play.
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- Author record
- John Keats1795–1821
- Source record
- PoetryDBHappy Is England! I Could Be Content by john-keats, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
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- Not recorded in the imported source
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- SHA-256 121e259f6ec127e4…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.