...vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quench'd their orbs, 25 Or dim suffusion veil'd. Yet not the more Cease I...haunt, Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill Sroit with the love of sacred song : but chief Thee, Sion, and the flowery brooks beneath, 30 That...

...thick a drop serene hath quench'd their orbs, 29 Or dim suffusion veil'd. Yet not the more Cease 1 to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady...hill, Smit with the love of sacred song ; but chief Thee, Sion, and the flowery brooks beneath, 30 That wash'd thy hallow'd feet, and warbling flow, Nightly...

...ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, 15 Or dim suffusion veiled. Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the muses...hill, Smit with the love of sacred song ; but chief 20 Thee, Sion, and the flowery brooks beneath, That wash thy hallowed feet, and warbling flow, Nightly...

...ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs,. Or dim suffusion veiled. Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses...hill, Smit with the love of sacred song; but chief Thee, Sion, and the flowery brooks beneath, That wash thy hallowed feet, and warbling flow, Nightly...

...that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quencht thir Orbs, Or dim suffusion veil'd. Yet not the more Cease...Hill, Smit with the love of sacred Song; but chief Thee Sion and the flow'ry Brooks beneath That wash thy hallow'd feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I...

...18. Magdalo By jointure (the estate given to a wife in lieu of her dower) Mary is called 'Magdalene'. Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses...haunt Clear Spring, or shady Grove, or Sunny Hill. 20. sonnets short lyrics, not necessarily, as here, poems fourteen lines in length. 21. beat passion....

...his blindness, but his only persistent action is to wander in search of an agency outside himself: Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses...grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song . . . (III. 26-29) And if the poet's thoughts are at one point said to be voluntary — "thoughts,...

...For Keats this passage would be Milton's Chapman's Homer: So thick a drop serene hath quencht thir Orbs, Or dim suffusion veil'd. Yet not the more Cease...Hill, Smit with the love of sacred Song; but chief Thee Sion and the flowr'y brooks beneath That wash thy hallow'd feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I...

...piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs,* Or dim suffusion veiled. Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses...hill, Smit with the love of sacred song; but chief Thee Sion and the flowery brooks beneath 30 That wash thy hallowed feet, and warbling flow, Nightly...

...space of poetic imagination, the location of the Muse, is evoked grows calmer as the poem proceeds — Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear Spring, or shady Grove, or Sunny Hill (111:26-28) — but it is permanently uncertain nonetheless. And while it may be true that the poem...