Lyric Poem · Peace
To Homer
by John Keats
1Standing aloof in giant ignorance,
2 Of thee I hear and of the Cyclades,
3As one who sits ashore and longs perchance
4 To visit dolphin-coral in deep seas.
5So thou wast blind; — but then the veil was rent,
6 For Jove uncurtain'd Heaven to let thee live,
7And Neptune made for thee a spumy tent,
8 And Pan made sing for thee his forest-hive;
9Aye on the shores of darkness there is light,
10 And precipices show untrodden green,
11There is a budding morrow in midnight,
12 There is a triple sight in blindness keen;
13Such seeing hadst thou, as it once befel
14To Dian, Queen of Earth, and Heaven, and Hell.
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Quick facts
- Poem
- To Homer
- Poet
- John Keats
- Length
- 14 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- Peace
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- Shape
- 14 lines · one 14-line stanza
- Line length
- Mostly 10-syllable lines (pentameter length).
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- Author record
- John Keats1795–1821
- Source record
- PoetryDBTo Homer by john-keats, PoetryDB transcription
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- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
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