...an undescribable feud ; So do these wonders a most dizzy pain. Thiit mingles Grecian grandeur witli ng upon woods, hills over hills, A surging scene, and only limited By the blue distance. He IS 17. March 9, 1817. ON A PICTURE OF LEANDER COME hither all sweet maidens soberly. Down-looking aye,...

...weeping, I will skip. The end of the sonnet is equal to, and in some ways surpasses, the beginning: "Such dim-conceived glories of the brain Bring round...billowy main — A sun — a shadow of a magnitude." "A shadow of a magnitude" is one of the finest and most startling expressions in all poetry. Beautiful,...

...luxury to weep, That I have not the cloudy wings to keep Fresh for the opening of the morning's eye. Such dim-conceived glories of the brain Bring round...with a billowy main A sun, a shadow of a magnitude. What do we learn from these sonnets? Simply that the marbles have set the young poet's imagination...

...luxury to weep, ^ That I have not the cloudy wings to keep Fresh for the opening of the morning's eye. Such dim-conceived glories of the brain Bring round...with a billowy main A sun, a shadow of a magnitude. What do we learn from these sonnets? Simply that the marbles have set the young poet's imagination...

...fluttering, elusive mental grasp of the vast and incomprehensible universe — " Grecian grandeur " mingled with the " rude Wasting of old Time — with a billowy main A sun, a shadow of a magnitude It is a partial re-echo of that overwhelming sense of wonder and awe Keats experienced in first reading...

...eye. Such dim-conceived glories of the brain Bring round the heart an undescribable feud; So do those wonders a most dizzy pain, That mingles Grecian grandeur...billowy main — A sun — a shadow of a magnitude. ("On Seeing the Elgin Marbles," 1790) On the one hand, "a billowy main," "the rude wasting of old Time";...

...eye. Such dim-conceived glories of the brain Bring round the heart an undescribable feud; So do those wonders a most dizzy pain, That mingles Grecian grandeur...billowy main — A sun — a shadow of a magnitude. ("On Seeing the Elgin Marbles," 1790) On the one hand, "a billowy main," "the rude wasting of old Time";...

...looking at the sky. Such dim-conceived glories of the brain Bring round the heart an undescribable feud; So do these wonders a most dizzy pain, That...billowy main— A sun— a shadow of a magnitude. With this sonnet he wrote another, addressed to Haydon, asking him to forgive me that I cannot speak...

...evident in the following lines: So do these wonders a most dizzy pain That mingles Grecian grandure with the rude Wasting of old Time — with a billowy main— A sun — a shadow of magnitude.6 ID the poem itself, Keats, unlike Wordsworth, tries to incorporate the past and the external...

...manifest integrity. Such dim-conceived glories of the brain Bring round the heart an undescribable feud; So do these wonders a most dizzy pain, That...billowy main — A sun — a shadow of a magnitude. (9-14) This technique, which appears in several early sonnets, becomes especially prominent in the...