John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
5940 John Keats 1795-1821 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 5940 |
| AUTHOR: | John Keats (1795–1821) |
| QUOTATION: | 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 surmise, Silent, upon a peak in Darien. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | On first looking into Chapman’s Homer. |
| WORKS: | John Keats Collection. |