On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer
... by John Keats
Much have I travelled in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western isles 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:
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 ...