Mar 14, 2025

8 most beautiful lines by English Romantic poets

Aakanksha Sharma

English romantic poets and their iconic lines

English Romantic poets knew their way around words, almost as if they were the tellers of the heart. From the innocence of love to the epitomes of beauty, they defined and loved it all. And here we mention lines from some of the most beautiful poems by Romantic poets.

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‘A Thing of Beauty’ by John Keats

“A thing of beauty is a joy foreverIts loveliness increases, it will neverPass into nothingness”

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‘The Stars are Mansions’ by William Wordsworth

“The stars are mansions built by Nature's hand,And, haply, there the spirits of the blestDwell, clothed in radiance, their immortal vest;Huge Ocean shows, within his yellow strand,A habitation marvellously planned,For life to occupy in love and rest;”

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‘She Walks in Beauty’ by Lord Byron

“She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that’s best of dark and brightMeet in her aspect and her eyes;”

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‘The flower that smiles to-day’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Virtue, how frail it is!Friendship how rare!Love, how it sells poor blissFor proud despair!But we, though soon they fall,Survive their joy, and allWhich ours we call.”

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‘Fancy’ by John Keats

“Ever let the Fancy roam,Pleasure never is at home:At a touch sweet Pleasure melteth,Like to bubbles when rain pelteth;”

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‘Auguries of Innocence’ by William Blake

“To see a World in a Grain of SandAnd a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hourA Robin Red breast in a CagePuts all Heaven in a Rage”

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‘About The Nightingale’ by ST Coleridge

“In stale blank verse a subject staleI send per post my Nightingale;And like an honest bard, dear Wordsworth,You'll tell me what you think, my Bird's worth.”

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‘Love’s Philosophy’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley

“And the sunlight clasps the earthAnd the moonbeams kiss the sea:What is all this sweet work worthIf thou kiss not me?”

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