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Poems Of John Keats: First Looking Into Chapman's Homer, On

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Keats, John

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First Looking Into Chapman's Homer, On

Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.

Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep - brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne: Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:

- Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez - when with eagle eyes

He stared at the Pacific - and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild ...

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