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 Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song - Seite 314von Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 882 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 390 Seiten
...been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-browM Homer ruled as his demesne: Yet did I never breathe...with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific, and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. John Ktats. FANCY... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 648 Seiten
...many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne...all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. II. WRITTEN IN JANUARY, 1817. After dark vapours have oppressed... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 650 Seiten
...many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne...all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — • Silent, upon a peak in Darien. ii. WRITTEN IN JANUARY, 1817. After dark vapours have oppressed... | |
| David M. Main - 1880 - 506 Seiten
...many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne...all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. ccci i Off THE GRASSffOPPEK AND CRICKET. TPHE poetry of earth is... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 394 Seiten
...in which he says — "Oft of one wide expanse had I been told, That deep-browed Homer ruled as hia demesne ; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene...his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise, Silent, upon a peak in Darien." It was a great favourite with Charles Lamb and ST Coleridge.1 I put... | |
| 1916 - 714 Seiten
...many western islands have I been "Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne...with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. — KEATS. IX.—... | |
| 1916 - 762 Seiten
...been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-broiued Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe...with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. — KEATS. IX.—... | |
| George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 604 Seiten
...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...with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien." Behnes' poor bald... | |
| Frances Mary Owen - 1880 - 202 Seiten
...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...like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific—and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise, Silent—upon a peak in Daricn.... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1880 - 826 Seiten
...wide expanse had I been told That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne: Yet did I never breatflfc its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud...like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes He stared at the 1'acific— and allhis men Looked at each other with a wild Burmine— Silent, upon a peak in Darien.... | |
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