 As Heaven and Earth are fairer, fairer far Than Chaos and blank Darkness, though once chiefs; And as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth In form and shape compact and beautiful, In will, in action free, companionship, And thousand other signs of purer...  Works - Page 114by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | David Rosen - 2008 - 224 pages
...compact and beautiful, In will, in action free, companionship, And thousand other signs of purer life; So on our heels, a fresh perfection treads, A power...to excel us, as we pass In glory that old Darkness. . . . (II. 205-215) Keats's myth begs to be read allegorically, and of course has been from the start.... | |
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