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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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As she is famed to do, deceiving elf.<br />

‘Ode to a Nightingale’ (1820) st. 8<br />

Was it a vision, or a waking dream?<br />

Fled is that music:—do I wake or sleep?<br />

‘Ode to a Nightingale’ (1820) st. 8<br />

‘Mid hushed, cool-rooted flowers, fragrant-eyed,<br />

Blue, silver-white, and budded Tyrian.<br />

‘Ode to Psyche’ (1820) st. 1<br />

Nor virgin-choir to make delicious moan<br />

Upon the midnight hours.<br />

‘Ode to Psyche’ (1820) st. 2<br />

Yes, I will be thy priest, and build a fane<br />

In some untrodden region <strong>of</strong> my mind,<br />

Where branchéd thoughts, new grown with pleasant pain,<br />

Instead <strong>of</strong> pines shall murmur in the wind.<br />

‘Ode to Psyche’ (1820) st. 4<br />

A bright torch, and a casement ope at night,<br />

To let the warm Love in!<br />

‘Ode to Psyche’ (1820) st. 4<br />

Much have I travelled in the realms <strong>of</strong> gold,<br />

And many goodly states and kingdoms seen.<br />

‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’ (1817)<br />

<strong>The</strong>n felt I like some watcher <strong>of</strong> the skies<br />

When a new planet swims into his ken;<br />

Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes<br />

He stared at the Pacific—and all his men<br />

Looked at each other with a wild surmise—<br />

Silent, upon a peak in Darien.<br />

‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’ (1817)<br />

Mortality<br />

Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep.<br />

‘On Seeing the Elgin Marbles’ (1817)<br />

<strong>The</strong> poetry <strong>of</strong> earth is never dead:<br />

When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,<br />

And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run<br />

From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.<br />

‘On the Grasshopper and Cricket’ (1817)<br />

It keeps eternal whisperings around<br />

Desolate shores,—and with its mighty swell<br />

Gluts twice ten thousand Caverns.

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