On first looking into Chapman's Homer
John Keats
1795 to 1821
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Looked at each other with a wild surmise—
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
When a new planet swims into his ken;
He star'd at the Pacific—and all his men
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
That deep-brow'd Homer rul'd as his demesne;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.