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" 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 stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. "
Names and Their Histories: A Handbook of Historical Geography and ... - Page 102
by Isaac Taylor - 1898 - 400 pages
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English Sonnets by Poets of the Past

Samuel Waddington - 1888 - 272 pages
...the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ;' Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. JOHN KEATS. ADDRESSED TO HAYDON. » REAT spirits now on earth are...
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English Sonnets by Poets of the Past

Samuel Waddington - 1888 - 272 pages
...the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. JOHN KEATS. ADDRESSED TO HAYDON. >|REAT spirits now on earth are...
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Spiritcarvers: Interviews with Eighteen Writers from New Zealand

Antonella Sarti - 1998 - 248 pages
...skies / When a new planet swims into his ken; / Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes / he stared at the Pacific - and all his men / Looked at each other with a wild surmise - / Silent, upon a peak in Darien"; i3 and that seems to describe the moment of amazement very well....
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared Ancient Silent, upon a peak in Darien. 5440 'To George Felton Mayhew' Sweet are the pleasures that to verse...
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Angela Carter: The Rational Glass

Aidan Day - 1998 - 238 pages
...the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific, and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise Silent, upon a peak in Darien. (11.9-14; Allott 1970: 62) Several Perceptions (1968) continues Carter's...
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A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography

Ambrose Bierce - 1998 - 392 pages
...most unwaterlike way, and inside the hour since, like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific, and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise, Silent upon a peak in Darien,'4 I had discovered this unknown sea all this insubstantial pageant had...
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The Classic Hundred Poems: All-time Favorites

William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pages
...the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific— and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien. COMPOSED 1816; PUBLISHED 1817. It may be hard to believe, but Keats...
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A Century of Sonnets: The Romantic-Era Revival 1750-1850

Paula R. Feldman, Daniel Robinson - 2002 - 302 pages
...the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. (1816) 303. To ****** Had I a man's fair form, then might my sighs...
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Keats

Andrew Motion - 1999 - 702 pages
...the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific - and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise Silent, upon a peak in Darien. 2 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer', drafted by Keats early one...
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Chapman's Homer: The IIiad and the Odyssey

Homer - 2000 - 982 pages
...the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific - and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise Silent upon a peak in Darien. JOHN KEATS The Odyssey is the story of all-experiencing Odysseus (Ulysses...
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