名人诗歌|On first looking into Chapman's Homer

MUCH have I travell'd in the realms of gold

And many goodly states and kingdoms seen；

Round many western islands have I been

Which bards^{1 in fealty2 to Apollo hold.}

Oft of one wide expanse had I been told

That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne^3：

Yet did I never breathe its pure serene⁴

Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold：

Then felt I like some watcher of the skies

When a new planet swims into his ken^5；

Or like stout^{6 Cortez when with eagle eyes}

He stared at the Pacificand all his men

Look'd at each other with a wild surmise

Silent upon a peak in Darien.