 Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where...  The Indicator - Page 347edited by - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1884 - 654 pages
...eve's one star, Sat grey-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on...on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feathered grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest. A stream went voiceless by, still... | |
 | Rudolf Arnheim - Art - 1966 - 386 pages
...expression. Thus, the following early draft of a passage in Keats' "Hyperion" (Book I, verses 7-9) : No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not at all the dandelion's fleece leads to this final version : No stir of air was there, Not so much life... | |
 | English periodicals - 1928 - 980 pages
...known that it was only after repeated experiment that he evolved the beautiful lines of Hyperion : Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass. A letter to John Taylor containing an amended version of a passage in Endymion is also illuminating,... | |
 | David Daiches - English literature - 1969 - 356 pages
...eve's one star, Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on...grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest. . . . The revised version, which embodies many of the descriptive passages of the earlier version but... | |
 | Paul A. Cantor - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 252 pages
...eve's one star, Sat gray-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on...on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feathered grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest. A stream went voiceless by, still... | |
 | John Barnard - Literary Collections - 1987 - 192 pages
...grey-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung above his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there,...on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feathered grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest. A stream went voiceless by, still... | |
 | Robert Brinkley, Keith Hanley - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 396 pages
...Keats altered the lines in accordance with the revision for The Fall, to produce the published text: No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a...grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest. (HI, 7-10) Two things are striking about this revision. First, there is Keats's capacity to recognize... | |
 | John Keats - Poetry - 1995 - 88 pages
...mai dimenticare ciò che avevo visto. Was in this shrouded vale, not so much air As in the zoning of a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd...there did it rest: A stream went voiceless by, still deaden'd more By reason of the fallen divinity Spreading more shade; the Naiad 'mid her reeds Prest... | |
 | John Keats, Robert Gittings - Literary Collections - 1995 - 324 pages
...Saturn, quiet as a stone, 5 Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung above his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there,...on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather" d grass, 10 But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest. A stream went voiceless by, still... | |
 | Robert Smith - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 214 pages
...'Hyperion' is a poem which begins with a still life or what could be called a 'tableau mort' (' . . . No stir of air was there, / Not so much life as on a summer's day / Robs not one light seed from the feathered grass, / But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest'). Oblivion is the form of relation... | |
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