{ "id": "john-keats/hyperion", "title": "Hyperion", "ordinal": null, "subtitle": "A Fragment", "poet": "John Keats", "poet_slug": "john-keats", "language": "en", "book": "Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems", "book_slug": "lamia-isabella-the-eve-of-st-agnes-and-other-poems", "book_kind": "volume", "sequence": 10, "container": null, "epigraph": null, "first_published": { "year": 1820, "venue": "Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems (1820)", "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.", "uncertain": false, "sources": [ "https://archive.org/details/keatslamia" ] }, "source": { "kind": "standard-ebooks", "repo": "standardebooks/john-keats_poetry", "file": "poetry.xhtml", "upstream": [ "https://archive.org/details/completepoetical01keat", "https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005261190" ], "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)" }, "verification": { "level": "structural-only", "last_checked": "2026-08-19" }, "stats": { "n_lines": 884, "n_stanzas": 15, "n_parts": 3, "longest_line_chars": 56, "max_indent": 1 }, "site_ready": true, "parts": [ { "ordinal": "Book I", "title": null, "stanza_range": [ 0, 8 ] }, { "ordinal": "Book II", "title": null, "stanza_range": [ 8, 14 ] }, { "ordinal": "Book III", "title": null, "stanza_range": [ 14, 15 ] } ], "stanzas": [ [ { "text": "Deep in the shady sadness of a vale", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Far from the fiery noon, and eve’s one star,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sat gray-hair’d Saturn, quiet as a stone,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Still as the silence round about his lair;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Forest on forest hung about his head", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Not so much life as on a summer’s day", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Robs not one light seed from the feather’d grass,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A stream went voiceless by, still deadened more", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "By reason of his fallen divinity", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Spreading a shade: the Naiad ’mid her reeds", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Press’d her cold finger closer to her lips.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Along the margin-sand large foot-marks went,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "No further than to where his feet had stray’d,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And slept there since. Upon the sodden ground", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "While his bow’d head seem’d list’ning to the Earth,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His ancient mother, for some comfort yet.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "It seem’d no force could wake him from his place;", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "But there came one, who with a kindred hand", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Touch’d his wide shoulders, after bending low", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With reverence, though to one who knew it not.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She was a Goddess of the infant world;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "By her in stature the tall Amazon", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Had stood a pygmy’s height: she would have ta’en", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Achilles by the hair and bent his neck;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or with a finger stay’d Ixion’s wheel.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her face was large as that of Memphian sphinx,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Pedestal’d haply in a palace-court,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "When sages look’d to Egypt for their lore.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But oh! how unlike marble was that face;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "How beautiful, if sorrow had not made", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty’s self.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "There was a listening fear in her regard,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As if calamity had but begun;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As if the vanward clouds of evil days", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Had spent their malice, and the sullen rear", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was with its stored thunder labouring up.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "One hand she press’d upon that aching spot", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where beats the human heart, as if just there,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Though an immortal, she felt cruel pain:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The other upon Saturn’s bended neck", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She laid, and to the level of his ear", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Leaning with parted lips, some words she spake", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In solemn tenor and deep organ tone:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Some mourning words, which in our feeble tongue", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Would come in these like accents; O how frail", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To that large utterance of the early gods!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Saturn, look up!⁠—though wherefore, poor old King?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "I have no comfort for thee, no not one:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "I cannot say, ‘O wherefore sleepest thou?’", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For heaven is parted from thee, and the earth", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Knows thee not, thus afflicted, for a God;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And ocean too, with all its solemn noise,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Has from thy sceptre pass’d; and all the air", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Is emptied of thine hoary majesty.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thy thunder, conscious of the new command,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Rumbles reluctant o’er our fallen house;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And thy sharp lightning in unpractised hands", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Scorches and burns our once serene domain.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "O aching time! O moments big as years!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All as ye pass swell out the monstrous truth,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And press it so upon our weary griefs", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That unbelief has not a space to breathe.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Saturn, sleep on:⁠—O thoughtless, why did I", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thus violate thy slumbrous solitude?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Why should I ope thy melancholy eyes?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Saturn, sleep on! while at thy feet I weep.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "As when, upon a tranced summer-night,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Those green-robed senators of mighty woods,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Dream, and so dream all night without a stir,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Save from one gradual solitary gust", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which comes upon the silence, and dies off,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As if the ebbing air had but one wave:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So came these words and went; the while in tears", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She touch’d her fair large forehead to the ground,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Just where her falling hair might be outspread", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A soft and silken mat for Saturn’s feet.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "One moon, with alteration slow, had shed", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her silver seasons four upon the night,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And still these two were postured motionless,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Like natural sculpture in cathedral cavern;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The frozen God still couchant on the earth,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And the sad Goddess weeping at his feet:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Until at length old Saturn lifted up", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His faded eyes, and saw his kingdom gone,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And all the gloom and sorrow of the place,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And that fair kneeling Goddess; and then spake,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As with a palsied tongue, and while his beard", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Shook horrid with such aspen-malady:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“O tender spouse of gold Hyperion,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thea, I feel thee ere I see thy face;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Look up, and let me see our doom in it;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Look up, and tell me if this feeble shape", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Is Saturn’s; tell me, if thou hear’st the voice", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of Saturn; tell me, if this wrinkling brow,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Naked and bare of its great diadem,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Peers like the front of Saturn. Who had power", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To make me desolate? whence came the strength?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "How was it nurtured to such bursting forth,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "While Fate seem’d strangled in my nervous grasp?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But it is so; and I am smother’d up,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And buried from all godlike exercise", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of influence benign on planets pale,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of admonitions to the winds and seas,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of peaceful sway above man’s harvesting,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And all those acts which Deity supreme", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Doth ease its heart of love in.⁠—I am gone", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Away from my own bosom: I have left", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "My strong identity, my real self,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Somewhere between the throne, and where I sit", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Here on this spot of earth. Search, Thea, search!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Open thine eyes eterne, and sphere them round", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Upon all space: space starr’d, and lorn of light;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Space region’d with life-air, and barren void;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Spaces of fire, and all the yawn of hell.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Search, Thea, search! and tell me if thou seest", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A certain shape or shadow, making way", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With wings or chariot fierce to repossess", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A heaven he lost erewhile: it must⁠—it must", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Be of ripe progress⁠—Saturn must be King.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yes, there must be a golden victory;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "There must be Gods thrown down, and trumpets blown", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of triumph calm, and hymns of festival", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Upon the gold clouds metropolitan,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Voices of soft proclaim, and silver stir", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of strings in hollow shells; and there shall be", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Beautiful things made new, for the surprise", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of the sky-children; I will give command:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thea! Thea! Thea! where is Saturn!", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "This passion lifted him upon his feet,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And made his hands to struggle in the air,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His Druid locks to shake and ooze with sweat,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His eyes to fever out, his voice to cease.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He stood, and heard not Thea’s sobbing deep;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A little time, and then again he snatch’d", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Utterance thus:⁠—“But cannot I create?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Cannot I form? Cannot I fashion forth", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Another world, another universe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To overbear and crumble this to nought?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where is another chaos? Where?”⁠—That word", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Found way unto Olympus, and made quake", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The rebel three.⁠—Thea was startled up,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And in her bearing was a sort of hope,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As thus she quick-voiced spake, yet full of awe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“This cheers our fallen house: come to our friends,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "O Saturn! come away, and give them heart;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "I know the covert, for thence came I hither.”", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thus brief; then with beseeching eyes she went", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With backward footing through the shade a space:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He follow’d, and she turn’d to lead the way", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Through aged boughs, that yielded like the mist", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which eagles cleave upmounting from their nest.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Meanwhile in other realms big tears were shed,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "More sorrow like to this, and such like woe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Too huge for mortal tongue or pen of scribe:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The Titans fierce, self-hid, or prison-bound", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Groan’d for the old allegiance once more,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And listen’d in sharp pain for Saturn’s voice.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But one of the whole mammoth-brood still kept", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His sov’reignty, and rule, and majesty;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Blazing Hyperion on his orbed fire", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Still sat, still snuff’d the incense, teeming up", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "From man to the sun’s God; yet unsecure:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For as among us mortals omens drear", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Fright and perplex, so also shudder’d he,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Not at dog’s howl, or gloom-bird’s hated screech,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or the familiar visiting of one", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Upon the first toll of his passing-bell,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or prophesyings of the midnight lamp:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But horrors, portion’d to a giant nerve,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Oft made Hyperion ache. His palace bright", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Bastion’d with pyramids of glowing gold,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And touch’d with shade of bronzed obelisks,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Glared a blood-red through all its thousand courts,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Arches, and domes, and fiery galleries;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And all its curtains of Aurorian clouds", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Flush’d angerly: while sometimes eagles’ wings,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unseen before by Gods or wondering men,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Darken’d the place; and neighing steeds were heard,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Not heard before by Gods or wondering men.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Also, when he would taste the spicy wreaths,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of incense breathed aloft from sacred hills,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Instead of sweets, his ample palate took", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Savour of poisonous brass and metal sick:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And so, when harbour’d in the sleepy west,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "After the full completion of fair day,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For rest divine upon exalted couch", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And slumber in the arms of melody,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He paced away the pleasant hours of ease", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With stride colossal, on from hall to hall;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "While far within each aisle and deep recess,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His winged minions in close clusters stood,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Amazed and full of fear; like anxious men", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who on wide plains gather in panting troops,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "When earthquakes jar their battlements and towers.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Even now while Saturn, roused from icy trance,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Went step for step with Thea through the woods,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Hyperion, leaving twilight in the rear,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Came slope upon the threshold of the west;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Then, as was wont, his palace-door flew ope", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In smoothest silence, save what solemn tubes,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Blown by the serious Zephyrs, gave of sweet", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And wandering sounds, slow-breathed melodies;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And like a rose in vermeil tint and shape,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In fragrance soft, and coolness to the eye,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That inlet to severe magnificence", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Stood full blown, for the God to enter in.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "He enter’d, but he enter’d full of wrath,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "His flaming robes stream’d out beyond his heels,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And gave a roar, as if of earthly fire,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That scared away the meek ethereal Hours", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And made their dove-wings tremble. On he flared", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "From stately nave to nave, from vault to vault,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Through bowers of fragrant and enwreathed light,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And diamond-paved lustrous long arcades", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Until he reach’d the great main cupola;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "There standing fierce beneath, he stampt his foot,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And from the basements deep to the high towers", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Jarr’d his own golden region: and before", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The quavering thunder thereupon had ceased,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His voice leapt out, despite of godlike curb,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To this result: “O dreams of day and night!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "O monstrous forms! O effigies of pain!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "O spectres busy in a cold, cold gloom!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "O lank-ear’d Phantoms of black-weeded pools!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Why do I know ye? why have I seen ye! why", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Is my eternal essence thus distraught", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To see and to behold these horrors new?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Saturn is fallen, am I too to fall?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Am I to leave this haven of my rest,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "This cradle of my glory, this soft clime,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "This calm luxuriance of blissful light,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "These crystalline pavilions, and pure fanes,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of all my lucent empire? It is left", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Deserted, void, nor any haunt of mine.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The blaze, the splendour, and the symmetry,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "I cannot see⁠—but darkness, death and darkness.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Even here, into my centre of repose,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The shady visions come to domineer,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Insult, and blind, and stifle up my pomp.⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Fall!⁠—No, by Tellus and her briny robes!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Over the fiery frontier of my realms", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "I will advance a terrible right arm", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Shall scare that infant thunderer, rebel Jove,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And bid old Saturn take his throne again.”", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He spake, and ceased, the while a heavier threat", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Held struggle with his throat, but came not forth;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For as in theatres of crowded men", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Hubbub increases more they call out, “Hush!”", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So at Hyperion’s words the Phantoms pale", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Bestirr’d themselves, thrice horrible and cold;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And from the mirror’d level where he stood", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A mist arose, as from a scummy marsh.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "At this, through all his bulk an agony", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Crept gradual, from the feet unto the crown,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Like a lithe serpent vast and muscular", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Making slow way, with head and neck convulsed", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "From over-strained might. Released, he fled", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To the eastern gates, and full six dewy hours", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Before the dawn in season due should blush,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He breathed fierce breath against the sleepy portals,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Clear’d them of heavy vapours, burst them wide", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Suddenly on the ocean’s chilly streams.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The planet orb of fire, whereon he rode", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Each day from east to west the heavens through,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Spun round in sable curtaining of clouds;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Not therefore veiled quite, blindfold, and hid,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But ever and anon the glancing spheres,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Circles, and arcs, and broad-belting colure,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Glow’d through, and wrought upon the muffling dark", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sweet-shaped lightnings from the nadir deep", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Up to the zenith,⁠—hieroglyphics old,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which sages and keen-eyed astrologers", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Then living on the earth, with labouring thought", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Won from the gaze of many centuries:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Now lost, save what we find on remnants huge", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of stone, or marble swart; their import gone,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Their wisdom long since fled.⁠—Two wings this orb", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Possess’d for glory, two fair argent wings,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ever exalted at the God’s approach:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And now, from forth the gloom their plumes immense", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Rose, one by one, till all outspreaded were;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "While still the dazzling globe maintain’d eclipse,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Awaiting for Hyperion’s command.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Fain would he have commanded, fain took throne", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And bid the day begin, if but for change.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He might not:⁠—No, though a primeval God", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The sacred seasons might not be disturb’d.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Therefore the operations of the dawn", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Stay’d in their birth, even as here ’tis told.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Those silver wings expanded sisterly,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Eager to sail their orb; the porches wide", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Open’d upon the dusk demesnes of night;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And the bright Titan, phrenzied with new woes,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unused to bend, by hard compulsion bent", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His spirit to the sorrow of the time:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And all along a dismal rack of clouds,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Upon the boundaries of day and night,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He stretch’d himself in grief and radiance faint.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "There as he lay, the Heaven with its stars", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Look’d down on him with pity, and the voice", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of Cœlus, from the universal space,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thus whisper’d low and solemn in his ear:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“O brightest of my children dear, earth-born", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And sky-engendered. Son of Mysteries", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All unrevealed even to the powers", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which met at thy creating; at whose joys", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And palpitations sweet, and pleasures soft,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "I, Coelus, wonder, how they came and whence;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And at the fruits thereof what shapes they be,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Distinct, and visible; symbols divine,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Manifestations of that beauteous life", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Diffused unseen throughout eternal space:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of these new-form’d art thou, oh brightest child!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of these, thy brethren and the Goddesses!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "There is sad feud among ye, and rebellion", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of son against his sire. I saw him fall,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "I saw my first-born tumbled from his throne!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To me his arms were spread, to me his voice", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Found way from forth the thunders round his head!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Pale wox I, and in vapours hid my face.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Art thou, too, near such doom? vague fear there is:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For I have seen my sons most unlike Gods.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Divine ye were created, and divine", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In sad demeanour, solemn, undisturb’d,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unruffled, like high Gods, ye lived and ruled:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Now I behold in you fear, hope, and wrath;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Actions of rage and passion; even as", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "I see them, on the mortal world beneath,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In men who die.⁠—This is the grief, O Son!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sad sign of ruin, sudden dismay, and fall!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yet do thou strive; as thou art capable,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As thou canst move about, an evident God;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And canst oppose to each malignant hour", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ethereal presence:⁠—I am but a voice;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "My life is but the life of winds and tides,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "No more than winds and tides can I avail:⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But thou canst.⁠—Be thou therefore in the van", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of circumstance; yea, seize the arrow’s barb", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Before the tense string murmur.⁠—To the earth!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For there thou wilt find Saturn, and his woes.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Meantime I will keep watch on thy bright sun,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And of thy seasons be a careful nurse.”⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ere half this region-whisper had come down,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Hyperion arose, and on the stars", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Lifted his curved lids, and kept them wide", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Until it ceased; and still he kept them wide;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And still they were the same bright, patient stars.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Then with a slow incline of his broad breast,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Like to a diver in the pearly seas,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Forward he stoop’d over the airy shore,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And plunged all noiseless into the deep night.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Just at the self-same beat of Time’s wide wings", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Hyperion slid into the rustled air,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And Saturn gain’d with Thea that sad place", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where Cybele and the bruised Titans mourn’d.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "It was a den where no insulting light", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Could glimmer on their tears; where their own groans", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They felt, but heard not, for the solid roar", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of thunderous waterfalls and torrents hoarse,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Pouring a constant bulk, uncertain where.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Crag jutting forth to crag, and rocks that seem’d", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ever as if just rising from a sleep,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Forehead to forehead held their monstrous horns;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And thus in thousand hugest phantasies", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Made a fit roofing to this nest of woe.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Instead of thrones, hard flint they sat upon,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Couches of rugged stone, and slaty ridge", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Stubborn’d with iron. All were not assembled:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Some chain’d in torture, and some wandering.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Cœus, and Gyges, and Briarcüs,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Typhon, and Dolor, and Porphyrion,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With many more, the brawniest in assault,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Were pent in regions of laborious breath;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Dungeon’d in opaque element to keep", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Their clenched teeth still clench’d, and all their limbs", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Lock’d up like veins of metal, crampt and screw’d;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Without a motion, save of their big hearts", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Heaving in pain, and horribly convulsed", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With sanguine, feverous, boiling gurge of pulse.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Mnemosyne was straying in the world;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Far from her moon had Phœbe wandered;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And many else were free to roam abroad,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But for the main, here found they covert drear.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Scarce images of life, one here, one there,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Lay vast and edgeways; like a dismal cirque", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of Druid stones, upon a forlorn moor,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "When the chill rain begins at shut of eve,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In dull November, and their chancel vault,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The Heaven itself, is blinded throughout night.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Each one kept shroud, nor to his neighbour gave", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or word, or look, or action of despair.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Creüs was one; his ponderous iron mace", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Lay by him, and a shatter’d rib of rock", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Told of his rage, ere he thus sank and pined.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Iapetus another; in his grasp,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A serpent’s plashy neck; its barbed tongue", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Squeezed from the gorge, and all its uncurl’d length", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Dead; and because the creature could not spit", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Its poison in the eyes of conquering Jove.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Next Cottus: prone he lay, chin uppermost,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As though in pain: for still upon the flint", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He ground severe his skull, with open mouth", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And eyes at horrid working. Nearest him", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Asia, born of most enormous Caf,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who cost her mother Tellus keener pangs,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Though feminine, than any of her sons:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "More thought than woe was in her dusky face,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For she was prophesying of her glory;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And in her wide imagination stood", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Palm-shaded temples, and high rival fanes,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "By Oxus or in Ganges’ sacred isles.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Even as Hope upon her anchor leans,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So leant she, not so fair, upon a tusk", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Shed from the broadest of her elephants.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Above her, on a crag’s uneasy shelve,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Upon his elbow raised, all prostrate else,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Shadow’d Enceladus; once tame and mild", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As grazing ox unworried in the meads;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Now tiger-passion’d, lion-thoughted, wroth,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He meditated, plotted, and even now", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was hurling mountains in that second war,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Not long delay’d, that scared the younger Gods", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To hide themselves in forms of beast and bird.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Not far hence Atlas; and beside him prone", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Phorcus, the sire of Gorgons. Neighbour’d close", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Oceanus, and Tethys, in whose lap", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sobb’d Clymene among her tangled hair.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In midst of all lay Themis, at the feet", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of Ops the queen all clouded round from sight;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "No shape distinguishable, more than when", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thick night confounds the pine-tops with the clouds:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And many else whose names may not be told.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For when the Muse’s wings are air-ward spread,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who shall delay her flight? And she must chant", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of Saturn, and his guide, who now had climb’d", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With damp and slippery footing from a depth", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "More horrid still. Above a sombre cliff", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Their heads appear’d, and up their stature grew", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Till on the level height their steps found ease:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Then Thea spread abroad her trembling arms", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Upon the precincts of this nest of pain,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And side-long fix’d her eye on Saturn’s face:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "There saw she direst strife; the supreme God", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "At war with all the frailty of grief,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of rage, of fear, anxiety, revenge,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Remorse, spleen, hope, but most of all despair.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Against these plagues he strove in vain: for Fate", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Had pour’d a mortal oil upon his head,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A disanointing poison: so that Thea,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Affrighted, kept her still, and let him pass", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "First onwards in, among the fallen tribe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "As with us mortal men, the laden heart", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Is persecuted more, and fever’d more,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "When it is nighing to the mournful house", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where other hearts are sick of the same bruise;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So Saturn, as he walk’d into the midst,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Felt faint, and would have sunk among the rest,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But that he met Enceladus’s eye,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whose mightiness, and awe of him, at once", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Came like an inspiration; and he shouted,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Titans, behold your God!” at which some groan’d;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Some started on their feet; some also shouted;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Some wept, some wail’d⁠—all bow’d with reverence;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And Ops, uplifting her black folded veil,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Show’d her pale cheeks, and all her forehead wan,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her eyebrows thin and jet, and hollow eyes.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "There is a roaring in the bleak-grown pines", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "When Winter lifts his voice; there is a noise", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Among immortals when a God gives sign,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With hushing finger, how he means to load", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His tongue with the full weight of utterless thought,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With thunder, and with music, and with pomp:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Such noise is like the roar of bleak-grown pines;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which, when it ceases in this mountain’d world,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "No other sound succeeds; but ceasing here,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Among these fallen, Saturn’s voice therefrom", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Grew up like organ, that begins anew", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Its strain, when other harmonies, stopt short,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Leave the dinn’d air vibrating silverly.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thus grew it up:⁠—“Not in my own sad breast,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which is its own great judge and searcher out,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Can I find reason why ye should be thus:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Not in the legends of the first of days,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Studied from that old spirit-leaved book", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which starry Uranus with finger bright", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Saved from the shores of darkness, when the waves", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Low-ebb’d still hid it up in shallow gloom;⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And the which book ye know I ever kept", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For my firm-based footstool:⁠—Ah, infirm!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Not there, nor in sign, symbol, or portent", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of element, earth, water, air, and fire,⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "At war, at peace, or inter-quarrelling", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "One against one, or two, or three, or all", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Each several one against the other three,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As fire with air loud warring when rain-floods", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Drown both, and press them both against earth’s face,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where, finding sulphur, a quadruple wrath", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unhinges the poor world;⁠—not in that strife,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Wherefrom I take strange lore, and read it deep,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Can I find reason why ye should be thus:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "No, nowhere can unriddle, though I search,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And pore on nature’s universal scroll", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Even to swooning, why ye, Divinities,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The first-born of all shaped and palpable Gods,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Should cower beneath what, in comparison,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Is untremendous might. Yet ye are here,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "O’erwhelm’d, and spurn’d, and batter’d, ye are here!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "O Titans, shall I say ‘Arise!’⁠—Ye groan:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Shall I say ‘Crouch!’⁠—Ye groan. What can I then?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "O Heaven wide! O unseen parent dear!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "What can I? Tell me, all ye brethren Gods,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "How we can war, how engine our great wrath!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "O speak your counsel now, for Saturn’s ear", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Is all a-hunger’d. Thou, Oceanus,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ponderest high and deep; and in thy face", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "I see, astonied, that severe content", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which comes of thought and musing: give us help!”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So ended Saturn; and the God of the Sea,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "Sophist and Sage, from no Athenian grove,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But cogitation in his watery shades,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Arose, with locks not oozy, and began,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In murmurs, which his first-endeavouring tongue", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Caught infant-like from the far-foamed sands.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“O ye, whom wrath consumes! who, passion-stung,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Writhe at defeat, and nurse your agonies!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Shut up your senses, stifle up your ears,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "My voice is not a bellows unto ire.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yet listen, ye who will, whilst I bring proof", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "How ye, perforce, must be content to stoop;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And in the proof much comfort will I give,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "If ye will take that comfort in its truth.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "We fall by course of Nature’s law, not force", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of thunder, or of Jove. Great Saturn, thou", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Has sifted well the atom-universe;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But for this reason, that thou art the King,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And only blind from sheer supremacy,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "One avenue was shaded from thine eyes,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Through which I wander’d to eternal truth.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And first, as thou wast not the first of powers.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So art thou not the last; it cannot be;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thou art not the beginning nor the end.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "From chaos and parental darkness came", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Light, the first fruits of that intestine broil,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That sullen ferment, which for wondrous ends", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Was ripening in itself. The ripe hour came,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And with it light, and light engendering", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Upon its own producer, forthwith touch’d", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The whole enormous matter into life.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Upon that very hour, our parentage,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The Heavens and the Earth, were manifest:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Then thou first-born, and we the giant-race,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Found ourselves ruling new and beauteous realms.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Now comes the pain of truth, to whom ’tis pain;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "O folly! for to bear all naked truths,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And to envisage circumstance, all calm,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That is the top of sovereignty. Mark well!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As Heaven and Earth are fairer, fairer far", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Than Chaos and blank Darkness, though once chiefs;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In form and shape compact and beautiful,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In will, in action free, companionship,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And thousand other signs of purer life;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So on our heels a fresh perfection treads,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A power more strong in beauty, born of us", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And fated to excel us, as we pass", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In glory that old Darkness: nor are we", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thereby more conquer’d, than by us the rule", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of shapeless Chaos. Say, doth the dull soil", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Quarrel with the proud forests it hath fed,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And feedeth still, more comely than itself?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Can it deny the chiefdom of green groves?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or shall the tree be envious of the dove", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Because it cooeth, and hath snowy wings", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To wander wherewithal and find its joys?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "We are such forest-trees, and our fair boughs", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Have bred forth, not pale solitary doves,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But eagles golden-feather’d, who do tower", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Above us in their beauty, and must reign", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In right thereof; for ’tis the eternal law", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That first in beauty should be first in might:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yea, by that law, another race may drive", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Our conquerors to mourn as we do now.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Have ye beheld the young God of the Seas,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "My dispossessor? Have ye seen his face?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Have ye beheld his chariot, foam’d along", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "By noble winged creatures he hath made?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "I saw him on the calmed waters scud,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With such a glow of beauty in his eyes,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That it enforced me to bid sad farewell", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To all my empire; farewell sad I took,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And hither came, to see how dolorous fate", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Had wrought upon ye; and how I might best", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Give consolation in this woe extreme.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Receive the truth and let it be your balm.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Whether through poz’d conviction, or disdain", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "They guarded silence, when Oceanus", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Left murmuring, what deepest thought can tell?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But so it was, none answer’d for a space,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Save one whom none regarded, Clymene:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And yet she answer’d not, only complain’d,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With hectic lips, and eyes up-looking mild,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thus wording timidly among the fierce:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“O Father, I am here the simplest voice,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And all my knowledge is that joy is gone,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And this thing woe crept in among our hearts,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "There to remain forever, as I fear:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "I would not bode of evil, if I thought", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So weak a creature could turn off the help", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which by just right should come of mighty Gods;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yet let me tell my sorrow, let me tell", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of what I heard, and how it made me weep,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And know that we had parted from all hope.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "I stood upon a shore, a pleasant shore,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where a sweet clime was breathed from a land", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of fragrance, quietness, and trees, and flowers.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Full of calm joy it was, as I of grief;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Too full of joy and soft delicious warmth;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "So that I felt a movement in my heart", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To chide, and to reproach that solitude", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With songs of misery, music of our woes;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And sat me down, and took a mouthed shell", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And murmur’d into it, and made melody⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "O melody no more! for while I sang,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And with poor skill let pass into the breeze", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The dull shell’s echo, from a bowery strand", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Just opposite, an island of the sea,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "There came enchantment with the shifting wind,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That did both drown and keep alive my ears.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "I threw my shell away upon the sand,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And a wave fill’d it, as my sense was fill’d", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With that new blissful golden melody.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A living death was in each gush of sounds,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Each family of rapturous hurried notes,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That fell, one after one, yet all at once,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Like pearl beads dropping sudden from their string:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And then another, then another strain,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Each like a dove leaving its olive perch,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With music wing’d instead of silent plumes,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To hover round my head, and make me sick", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of joy and grief at once. Grief overcame,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And I was stopping up my frantic ears,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "When, past all hindrance of my trembling hands,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A voice came sweeter, sweeter than all tune,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And still it cried, ‘Apollo! young Apollo!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The morning-bright Apollo! young Apollo!’", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "I fled, it follow’d me, and cried, ‘Apollo!’", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "O Father, and O Brethren, had ye felt", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Those pains of mine; O Saturn, hadst thou felt,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ye would not call this too indulged tongue", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Presumptuous, in thus venturing to be heard.”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So far her voice flow’d on, like timorous brook", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "That, lingering along a pebbled coast,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Doth fear to meet the sea: but sea it met,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And shudder’d; for the overwhelming voice", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of huge Enceladus swallow’d it in wrath:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The ponderous syllables, like sullen waves", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In the half-glutted hollows of reef-rocks,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Came booming thus, while still upon his arm", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He lean’d; not rising, from supreme contempt.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Or shall we listen to the over-wise,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or to the over-foolish giant, Gods?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Not thunderbolt on thunderbolt, till all", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That rebel Jove’s whole armoury were spent,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Not world on world upon these shoulders piled,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Could agonize me more than baby-words", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In midst of this dethronement horrible.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Speak! roar! shout! yell! ye sleepy Titans all.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Do ye forget the blows, the buffets vile?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Are ye not smitten by a youngling arm?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Dost thou forget, sham Monarch of the Waves,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thy scalding in the seas? What! have I roused", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Your spleens with so few simple words as these?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "O joy! for now I see ye are not lost:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "O joy! for now I see a thousand eyes", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Wide-glaring for revenge.”⁠—As this he said,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He lifted up his stature vast, and stood,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Still without intermission speaking thus:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Now ye are flames, I’ll tell you how to burn,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And purge the ether of our enemies;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "How to feed fierce the crooked stings of fire,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And singe away the swollen clouds of Jove,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Stifling that puny essence in its tent.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "O let him feel the evil he hath done;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For though I scorn Oceanus’s lore,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Much pain have I for more than loss of realms:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Those days, all innocent of scathing war,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "When all the fair Existences of heaven", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Came open-eyed to guess what we would speak:⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That was before our brows were taught to frown,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Before our lips knew else but solemn sounds;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That was before we knew the winged thing,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Victory, might be lost, or might be won,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And be ye mindful that Hyperion,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Our brightest brother, still is undisgraced⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Hyperion, lo! his radiance is here!”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "All eyes were on Enceladus’s face,", "indent": 1 }, { "text": "And they beheld, while still Hyperion’s name", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Flew from his lips up to the vaulted rocks,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A pallid gleam across his features stern:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Not savage, for he saw full many a God", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Wroth as himself. He look’d upon them all,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And in each face he saw a gleam of light,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But splendider in Saturn’s, whose hoar locks", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Shone like the bubbling foam about a keel", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "When the prow sweeps into a midnight cove.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In pale and silver silence they remain’d,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Till suddenly a splendour, like the morn,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Pervaded all the beetling gloomy steeps,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All the sad spaces of oblivion,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And every gulf, and every chasm old,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And every height, and every sullen depth,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Voiceless, or hoarse with loud tormented streams:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And all the everlasting cataracts,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And all the headlong torrents far and near,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Mantled before in darkness and huge shade,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Now saw the light and made it terrible.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "It was Hyperion:⁠—a granite peak", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His bright feet touch’d, and there he stay’d to view", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The misery his brilliance had betray’d", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To the most hateful seeing of itself.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Golden his hair of short Numidian curl,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Regal his shape majestic, a vast shade", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In midst of his own brightness, like the bulk", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of Memnon’s image at the set of sun", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To one who travels from the dusking East:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sighs, too, as mournful as that Memnon’s harp,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He utter’d, while his hands contemplative", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He press’d together, and in silence stood.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Despondence seized again the fallen Gods", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "At sight of the dejected King of Day,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And many hid their faces from the light:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But fierce Enceladus sent forth his eyes", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Among the brotherhood; and, at their glare,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Uprose Iäpetus, and Creüs too,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And Phorcus, sea-born, and together strode", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To where he tower’d on his eminence.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "There those four shouted forth old Saturn’s name;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Hyperion from the peak loud answered “Saturn!”", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Saturn sat near the Mother of the Gods,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In whose face was no joy, though all the Gods", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Gave from their hollow throats the name of “Saturn!”", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Thus in alternate uproar and sad peace,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Amazed were those Titans utterly.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "O leave them, Muse! O leave them to their woes;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For thou art weak to sing such tumults dire:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A solitary sorrow best befits", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thy lips, and antheming a lonely grief.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Leave them, O Muse! for thou anon wilt find", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Many a fallen old Divinity", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Wandering in vain about bewildered shores.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Meantime touch piously the Delphic harp,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And not a wind of heaven but will breathe", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In aid soft warble from the Dorian flute;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For lo! ’tis for the Father of all verse.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Flush everything that hath a vermeil hue,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Let the rose glow intense and warm the air,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And let the clouds of even and of morn", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Float in voluptuous fleeces o’er the hills;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Let the red wine within the goblet boil,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Cold as a bubbling well; let faint-lipp’d shells,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "On sands or in great deeps, vermilion turn", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Through all their labyrinths; and let the maid", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Blush keenly, as with some warm kiss surprised.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Chief isle of the embowered Cyclades,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Rejoice, O Delos, with thine olives green,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And poplars, and lawn-shading palms, and beech,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In which the Zephyr breathes the loudest song,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And hazels thick, dark-stemm’d beneath the shade:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Apollo is once more the golden theme!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where was he, when the Giant of the Sun", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Stood bright, amid the sorrow of his peers?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Together had he left his mother fair", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And his twin-sister sleeping in their bower,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And in the morning twilight wandered forth", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Beside the osiers of a rivulet,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Full ankle-deep in lilies of the vale.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The nightingale had ceased, and a few stars", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Were lingering in the heavens, while the thrush", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Began calm-throated. Throughout all the isle", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "There was no covert, no retired cave", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unhaunted by the murmurous noise of waves,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Though scarcely heard in many a green recess.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He listen’d, and he wept, and his bright tears", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Went trickling down the golden bow he held.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thus with half-shut suffused eyes he stood,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "While from beneath some cumbrous boughs hard by", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With solemn step an awful Goddess came,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And there was purport in her looks for him,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which he with eager guess began to read", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Perplex’d, the while melodiously he said:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“How cam’st thou over the unfooted sea?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or hath that antique mien and robed form", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Moved in these vales invisible till now?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sure I have heard those vestments sweeping o’er", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The fallen leaves, when I have sat alone", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In cool mid-forest. Surely I have traced", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The rustle of those ample skirts about", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "These grassy solitudes, and seen the flowers", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Lift up their heads, and still the whisper pass’d.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Goddess! I have beheld those eyes before,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And their eternal calm, and all that face,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or I have dream’d.”⁠—“Yes,” said the supreme shape,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "“Thou hast dream’d of me; and awaking up", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Didst find a lyre all golden by thy side,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whose strings touch’d by thy fingers, all the vast", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Unwearied ear of the whole universe", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Listen’d in pain and pleasure at the birth", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of such new tuneful wonder. Is ’t not strange", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That thou shouldst weep, so gifted? Tell me, youth,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "What sorrow thou canst feel; for I am sad", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "When thou dost shed a tear: explain thy griefs", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To one who in this lonely isle hath been", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The watcher of thy sleep and hours of life,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "From the young day when first thy infant hand", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Pluck’d witless the weak flowers, till thine arm", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Could bend that bow heroic to all times.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Show thy heart’s secret to an ancient Power", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who hath forsaken old and sacred thrones", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For prophecies of thee, and for the sake", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of loveliness new-born.”⁠—Apollo then,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With sudden scrutiny and gloomless eyes,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thus answer’d, while his white melodious throat", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Throbb’d with the syllables:⁠—“Mnemosyne!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thy name is on my tongue, I know not how;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Why should I tell thee what thou so well seest?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Why should I strive to show what from thy lips", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Would come no mystery? For me, dark, dark,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And painful vile oblivion seals my eyes:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "I strive to search wherefore I am so sad,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Until a melancholy numbs my limbs;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And then upon the grass I sit, and moan,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Like one who once had wings.⁠—O why should I", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Feel cursed and thwarted, when the liegeless air", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yields to my step aspirant? why should I", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Spurn the green turf as hateful to my feet?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Goddess benign, point forth some unknown thing:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Are there not other regions than this isle?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "What are the stars? There is the sun, the sun!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And the most patient brilliance of the moon!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And stars by thousands! Point me out the way", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To any one particular beauteous star,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And I will flit into it with my lyre,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And make its silvery splendour pant with bliss.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "I have heard the cloudy thunder: Where is power?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whose hand, whose essence, what divinity", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Makes this alarum in the elements,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "While I here idle listen on the shores", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In fearless yet in aching ignorance?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "O tell me, lonely Goddess, by thy harp,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That waileth every morn and eventide,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Tell me why thus I rave, about these groves!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Mute thou remainest⁠—Mute! yet I can read", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A wondrous lesson in thy silent face:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Knowledge enormous makes a God of me.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Names, deeds, grey legends, dire events, rebellions,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Majesties, sovran voices, agonies,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Creations and destroyings, all at once", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Pour into the wide hollows of my brain,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And deify me, as if some blithe wine", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or bright elixir peerless I had drunk,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And so become immortal.”⁠—Thus the God,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "While his enkindled eyes, with level glance", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Beneath his white soft temples, steadfast kept", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Trembling with light upon Mnemosyne.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Soon wild commotions shook him, and made flush", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All the immortal fairness of his limbs:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Most like the struggle at the gate of death;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or liker still to one who should take leave", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of pale immortal death, and with a pang", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As hot as death’s is chill, with fierce convulse", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Die into life: so young Apollo anguish’d:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His very hair, his golden tresses famed", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Kept undulation round his eager neck.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "During the pain Mnemosyne upheld", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her arms as one who prophesied.⁠—At length", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Apollo shriek’d;⁠—and lo! from all his limbs", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Celestial⁠ ⁠…", "indent": 0 } ] ], "notes": [ { "id": "books-now-in-parts", "kind": "defect", "raised": "2026-08-19", "what": "defects.py sections also flags A FRAGMENT, already subtitle. 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