 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 - Page 314by Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 882 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 654 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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,... | |
 | Sir Hall Caine - 1882 - 384 pages
...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— TO HOMER. TANDING aloof in... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 424 pages
...to the Greeks and their divine fables— " Oft of a 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 Darien."... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 pages
...Homer ruled as his mesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud bold : Then felt I like some watcher of the skies...all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. JOHN K 1 1 : de and IT is the poet Uhland, from whose wreathings... | |
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