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
| 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.... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 654 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...— and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmiseSilent, upon a peak in Darien. 11. WRITTEN IN JANUARY, 1817. After dark vapours have oppressed... | |
| 1881 - 686 Seiten
...of Keats' ' Sonnet ' on Chapman's Homer, ' Oft of one wide expanse had I been told, That deep-hrow'd Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe...with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Look at each other with a mild turmiee — Silent upon a peak in Darien.' Of course, as thought... | |
| David M. Main (ed) - 1881 - 496 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...like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific—and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien.... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 Seiten
...been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That dcep-brow'd a crystal stream ? We look before and after, And...leafless tree, Dost thou carol thus to me, "Spring his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. JOHN KEATS. A VISION... | |
| Samuel Waddington - 1882 - 280 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. JOHN KEATS. ADDRESSED TO HAYDON. >REAT spirits now on earth are... | |
| Sir Hall Caine - 1882 - 378 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. TO HOMER. TANDING aloof in giant ignorance, Of thee I hear and of... | |
| William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1882 - 312 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...all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. And now for Chapman : Achilles' baneful wrath resound, O Goddess,... | |
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