Πέμπτη 17 Νοεμβρίου 2016

H AΝΑΜΕΝΟΜέΝΗ: John Keats, Σονέτο στον Όμηρο (To Homer, 1818)

John Keats, To Homer
Standing aloof in giant ignorance

Of thee I hear and of the Cyclades,

As one who sits ashore and longs perchance

To visit dolphin-coral in deep seas.


So thou wast blind;–but then the veil was rent,

For Jove uncurtain’d Heaven to let thee live,

And Neptune made for thee a spumy tent,

And Pan made sing for thee his forest-hive;


Aye on the shores of darkness there is light,

And precipices show untrodden green,

There is a budding morrow in midnight,

There is a triple sight in blindness keen;


Such seeing hadst thou, as it once befel

To Dian, Queen of Earth, and Heaven, and Hell.


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