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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: TO HOMER, by JOHN KEATS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Standing aloof in giant ignorance
Last Line: To dian, queen of earth, and heaven, and hell.
Variant Title(s): To Homer
Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey
First Line: Standing aloof in giant ignorance
Last Line: To dian, queen of earth, and heaven, and hell.
Variant Title(s): To Homer
Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey
STANDING aloof in giant ignorance,
Of thee I hear and of the Cyclades,
As one who sits ashore and longs perchance
To visit dolphin-coral in deep seas.
So thou wast blind;--but then the veil was rent,
For Jove uncurtain'd Heaven to let thee live,
And Neptune made for thee a spumy tent,
And Pan made sing for thee his forest-hive;
Aye on the shores of darkness there is light,
And precipices show untrodden green,
There is a budding morrow in midnight,
There is a triple sight in blindness keen;
Such seeing hadst thou, as it once befel
To Dian, Queen of Earth, and Heaven, and Hell.
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