Isabella,
or the Pot of Basil (1818) is a nice narrative poem by John Keats adapted from a story in Boccaccio's Decameron.It
tells the tale of a young woman whose family intend to marry her to some high
noble, but who falls for Lorenzo, one of her brothers' employees. When the
brothers learn of this, they murder Lorenzo and bury his body. His ghost
informs Isabella in a dream. She exhumes the body and buries the head in a pot
of basil. It was published in 1820 along with the latter work and others.