On first looking into Chapman's Homer
John Keats
1795 to 1821
Drag the words to the correct places to complete the poem. To reset the game, click on the "Reset Game" button located below the poem. This will clear all the words you've placed in the blanks, returning them to the word bank and resetting the poem to its original state with empty blanks.
Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,
______ many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western ______ have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
______ deep-brow'd Homer rul'd as his demesne;
Yet did I ______ breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak ______ loud and bold:
Then felt I like some watcher ______ the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star'd at the Pacific—and all his men
Looked at each ______ with a wild surmise—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.