ON THE SEA It keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell Gluts twice ten thousand Caverns, till the spell Of Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound. Often 'tis in such gentle temper found, That scarcely will the very... John Keats: A Study - Page 174by Frances Mary Owen - 1880 - 183 pagesFull view - About this book
| Stuart M. Sperry - 1994 - 376 pages
...The sonnet "On the Sea" is among the last and best of what we might think of as the "early" lyrics. IT KEEPS eternal whisperings around Desolate shores,...will the very smallest shell Be moved for days from where it sometime fell, When last the winds of heaven were unbound. Oh ye! who have your eye-balls... | |
| John Keats - 1994 - 554 pages
...born! So, without more ado, I'll feel my heaven anew, For all the blushing of the hasty morn. Sonnet on the Sea It keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate...Gluts twice ten thousand Caverns, till the spell Of Hecate1 leaves them their old shadowy sound. Often 'tis in such gende temper found, That scarcely will... | |
| John Foster, Gordon Dennis - 1995 - 136 pages
...abba abba cde dec. Further examples of sonnets can be found on pages 53 and 9 1 . a Oft the SVri a It keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores,...shadowy sound. Often 'tis in such gentle temper found 5 That scarcely will the very smallest shell Be mov'd for days from where it sometime fell, When last... | |
| John Keats, Robert Gittings - 1995 - 324 pages
...sacrifice to Pan.the rural god, on behalf of the shepherds. 236 hamadryads - tree nymphs. 12 Keats IT keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores,...spell Of Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound. 5 Often 'tis in such gentle temper found, That scarcely will the very smallest shell Be moved for days... | |
| Thomas McFarland - 2000 - 268 pages
...billowy main, as none the less occupying the mental space expressly marked out by Hellenic coordinates: It keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores,...spell Of Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound. The sestet, somewhat like though inferior to Wordsworth's The World is Too Much With Us', contrasts... | |
| Susan J. Wolfson - 2001 - 324 pages
...about flowing over a boundary: "a voice will run / From hedge to hedge." The grammatical sentence of "It keeps eternal whisperings around / Desolate shores,...spell / Of Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound" (On the Sea) does not end until "sound," and it gets there by washing over all the line boundaries,... | |
| John Keats - 2002 - 484 pages
...narvus — and the passage in Lear — "Do you not hear the Sea?"* — has haunted me intensely. On the Sea. It keeps eternal Whisperings around Desolate...sometime fell When last the winds of Heaven were unbound. O ye who have your eyeballs vext and tir'd Feast them upon the wideness of the Sea O ye whose Ears... | |
| Allardyce Nicoll - 2002 - 204 pages
...once to write out the sonnet On the Sea. I give it here exactly as he wrote it out in his letter : It keeps eternal Whisperings around Desolate shores,...sometime fell When last the winds of Heaven were unbound. O ye who have your eyeballs vext and tir'd Feast them upon the wideness of the Sea O ye whose Ears... | |
| John Keats - 2009 - 588 pages
...rather narvus and the passage in Lear — "Do you not hear the Sea?" — has haunted me intensely. On the Sea It keeps eternal Whisperings around Desolate...sometime fell When last the winds of Heaven were unbound. O ye who have your eyeballs vext and tir'd, Feast them upon the wideness of the Sea. O ye whose Ears... | |
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