'To Homer', de Keats (Abril/Maio de 1818)

I have written to George [Keats] for some Books — shall learn Greek...

I long to feast upon old Homer as we have upon Shakespeare and as I have lately upon Milton

Keats to Reynolds, 27 April 1818 (L i 274)

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

in Keats - The Complete Poems.

Londres, 1970: Longman. (Ed.: Miriam Allott)