John Keats       On First Looking into Chapman's Homer Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,         And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;         Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told         That deep-brow'd 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; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes         He star'd at the Pacific--and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise--         Silent, upon a peak in Darien. 1816