Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO HAYDON, WITH A SONNET WRITTEN ON SEEING THE ELGIN MARBLES, by JOHN KEATS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Haydon! Forgive me that I cannot speak Last Line: Of their star in the east, and gone to worship them. | ||||||||
(ON SEEING THE ELGIN MARBLES) HAYDON! forgive me that I cannot speak Definitively on these mighty things; Forgive me that I have not Eagle's wings-- That what I want I know not where to seek: And think that I would not be over meek In rolling out upfollow'd thunderings, Even to the steep of Heliconian springs, Were I of ample strength for such a freak-- Think too, that all those numbers should be thine; Whose else? In this who touch thy vesture's hem? For when men star'd at what was most divine With browless idiotism--o'erwise phlegm-- Thou hadst beheld the Hesperean shine Of their star in the East, and gone to worship them. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EXTRACTS FROM AN OPERA: 2. DAISY'S SONG by JOHN KEATS ITALY SWEET TOO! by JOHN KEATS LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI by JOHN KEATS LAST SONNET (REVISED VERSION) by JOHN KEATS LINES ON THE MERMAID TAVERN by JOHN KEATS ODE ON A GRECIAN URN by JOHN KEATS |
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