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Hymn To Apollo

by John Keats

God of the golden bow,
And of the golden lyre,
And of the golden hair,
And of the golden fire,
Charioteer
Of the patient year,
Where---where slept thine ire,
When like a blank idiot I put on thy wreath,
Thy laurel, thy glory,
The light of thy story,
Or was I a worm---too low crawling for death?
O Delphic Apollo!

The Thunderer grasp'd and grasp'd,
The Thunderer frown'd and frown'd;
The eagle's feathery mane
For wrath became stiffen'd---the sound
Of breeding thunder
Went drowsily under,
Muttering to be unbound.
O why didst thou pity, and beg for a worm?
Why touch thy soft lute
Till the thunder was mute,
Why was I not crush'd---such a pitiful germ?
O Delphic Apollo!

The Pleiades were up,
Watching the silent air;
The seeds and roots in Earth
Were swelling for summer fare;
The Ocean, its neighbour,
Was at his old labour,
When, who---who did dare
To tie for a moment, thy plant round his brow,
And grin and look proudly,
And blaspheme so loudly,
And live for that honour, to stoop to thee now?
O Delphic Apollo!


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  Poems by John Keats
  1. Addressed To Haydon
  2. Answer To A Sonnet By JHReynolds
  3. A Dream After Reading Dantes Episode Of
  4. Bright Star Would I Were Steadfast As T
  5. Endymion Book II
  6. Endymion Book III
  7. Endymion Book IV
  8. Epistle To My Brother George
  9. Happy Is England I Could Be Content
  10. Hither Hither Love
  11. How Many Bards Gild The Lapses Of Time
  12. Hymn To Apollo
  13. Hyperion
  14. If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be C
  15. In Drear-Nighted December
  16. La Belle Dame Sans Merci
  17. Lines
  18. Lines On The Mermaid Tavern
  19. Meg Merrilies
  20. Ode On A Grecian Urn
  21. Ode On Indolence
  22. Ode On Melancholy
  23. Ode To A Nightingale
  24. Ode To Psyche
  25. On Fame
  26. On First Looking Into Chapmans Homer
  27. On Leaving Some Friends At An Early Hou
  28. On Seeing The Elgin Marbles For The Fir
  29. On Sitting Down To Read King Lear Once
  30. On The Grasshopper And Cricket
  31. On The Sea
  32. O Blush Not So
  33. O Solitude If I Must With Thee Dwell
  34. Robin Hood
  35. The Day Is Gone And All Its Sweets Are
  36. The Eve Of St Agnes
  37. The Human Seasons
  38. Think Of It Not Sweet One
  39. To-
  40. To Ailsa Rock
  41. To Autumn
  42. To A Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses
  43. To A Young Lady Who Sent Me A Laurel Cr
  44. To Fanny
  45. To GAW
  46. To Haydon
  47. To Homer
  48. To Hope
  49. To John Hamilton Reynolds
  50. To My Brothers
  51. To My Brother George
  52. To One Who Has Been Long In City Pent
  53. To Sleep
  54. To Solitude
  55. To The Nile
  56. When I Have Fears That I May Cease To B
  57. Where Be Ye Going You Devon Maid
  58. Why Did I Laugh Tonight No Voice Will T
  59. Written Before Re-Reading King Lear
  60. Written On A Blank Space At The End Of
  61. Written On A Summer Evening
  62. Written On The Day That Mr Leigh Hunt L
 
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