Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VI. Fancy. 1904. | | | | Poems of Sentiment: IV. Thought: Poetry: Books | | On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer | | John Keats (1795–1821) |
| | | MUCH have I travelled 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 | 5 |
| That deep-browed 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; | 10 |
| Or 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. | | | | |
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