ROMAN ANTIQUITIES DISCOVERED. 75 ROMAN ANTIQUITIES DISCOVERED. WHILE poring Antiquarians search the ground Dawns this time-buried pavement. From that mound Or a fierce impress issue with its foil Of tenderness—the Wolf, whose suckling Twins W. Wordsworth. 76 ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER. ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER. MUCH have I travell'd in the realms of gold Oft of one wide expanse had I been told -Then felt I like some watcher of the skies He stared at the Pacific, and all his men John Keats. FANCY IN NUBIBUS. 77 FANCY IN NUBIBUS. OR THE POET IN THE CLOUDS. O! IT is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Own each quaint likeness issuing from the mould And cheek aslant, see rivers flow of gold 'Twixt crimson banks; and then, a traveller, go From mount to mount through Cloudland, gorgeous land! Or list'ning to the tide, with closed sight, Be that blind bard who, on the Chian strand By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssee Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. S. T. Coleridge. 78 WITH A COPY OF THE ILIAD.. WITH A COPY OF THE ILIAD. BAYARD, awaken not this music strong Edmund Clarence Stedman. TO MILTON. 79 TO MILTON. MILTON! thou shouldst be living at this hour; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea; The lowliest duties on itself did lay. W. Wordsworth. |