...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...'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...