To One who has been Long in City Pent by John Keats Nature Poem

John Keats is one of my most favourite English poets, in fact, my most favourite English poet. I love very much the poems written by John Keats. “To One who has been Long in City Pent” is one of his romantic poems. The poem shows his love to nature.

To One who has been Long in City Pent
by John Keats

To one who has been long in city pent,
    'Tis very sweet to look into the fair
    And open face of heaven,--to breathe a prayer
Full in the smile of the blue firmament.
Who is more happy, when, with heart's content,
    Fatigued he sinks into some pleasant lair
    Of wavy grass, and reads a debonair
And gentle tale of love and languishment?
Returning home at evening, with an ear
    Catching the notes of Philomel,--an eye
Watching the sailing cloudlet's bright career,
    He mourns that day so soon has glided by:
E'en like the passage of an angel's tear
    That falls through the clear ether silently.