Keats 's notes and papers do not reveal the precise dating of the 1819 odes . Literary scholars have proposed several different orders of composition , arguing that the poems form a sequence within their structures . In The Consecrated Urn , Bernard Blackstone observe that " Indolence " have been variously thought the first , second , and final of the five 1819 odes . Biographer Robert Gittings suggest " Ode on Indolence " was written on 4 May 1819 , based upon Keats 's report about the weather during the ode 's creation ; Douglas Bush insist it was written after " Nightingale " , " Grecian Urn " , and " Melancholy " . Based on his examination of the stanza forms , Keats biographer Andrew Motion think " Ode on Indolence " was written after " Ode to Psyche " and " Ode to a Nightingale " , although he admit there is no way to be precise about the dates . Nevertheless , he argue that " Ode on Indolence " was probably composed last .