Name that Keats Quote

[Malia]

Hey everyone,
We have a quote thread in the Miscellaneous portion of the forum, but we don't have an active quote thread dedicated entirely unto our man *Keats* (for shame!). So, I thought we could dedicate this space to quotes from Keats's poems and letters. Being a multi-tasker, I propose when a person posts his or her Keats quote, he/she does not cite the source but instead asks the rest of us to guess where the quote came from. What say you all to that?

I'll begin. Here's a part of a Keats poem that I truly love (being the morbid sort of person I am--I blame it on my English degree. . . ):

"On the high couch he lay!- his friends came round-

Supported him- no pulse, or breath they found,

And, in its marriage robe, the heavy body wound"

What poem is this quote from?

[Saturn]

Excellent idea Malia - can't believe I never thought of it

This one gets a sticky...

As for your quote - no idea

I couldn't do it without cheating which is so easy to do so I'll take a wild guess at Lamia?

[Malia]

Saturn, your instincts serve you well. Lamia is the correct answer Those are the penultumate lines of the poem--they really give a hint of where Keats could have gone with dramatic writing had he lived longer.

Have a quote for us to guess at, Saturn?

[dks]

Saturn, your instincts serve you well. Lamia is the correct answer Those are the penultumate lines of the poem--they really give a hint of where Keats could have gone with dramatic writing had he lived longer.

Have a quote for us to guess at, Saturn?

That was good. Great thread, Malia. Hmmmm....a stumper quote for you swank, wise people...

I have to think on this one...

[Saturn]

It was "marriage robe" that clinched it for me

Okay here's mine:

“…in truth we’ve had
Strange thunders from the potency of song;
Mingled indeed with what is sweet and strong,
From majesty: but in clear truth the themes
Are ugly clubs, the poets Polyphemes
Disturbing the grand sea."

[dks]

It was "marriage robe" that clinched it for me

Okay here's mine:

“…in truth we’ve had
Strange thunders from the potency of song;
Mingled indeed with what is sweet and strong,
From majesty: but in clear truth the themes
Are ugly clubs, the poets Polyphemes
Disturbing the grand sea."

I'm going to take a stab, Stephen. Might it be from "Hyperion?" The Greek allusion just stood out for me...

[Saturn]

Nope...

[dks]

Nope...

Tricky...ok...I'll keep lookin'.

[Malia]

Saturn, is it from Endymion? I hardly recognize those lines--OK I don't recognize them at all And considering I've only read Endymion once, I'll guess it was from that epic work.

[Saturn]

"Our survey says X"

Next contestant...

[Richard]

Its not Sleep and Poetry is it ?

I think I've just answered the question.

But it is quite early isn't it?

richard

[Saturn]

We have a winner ladies and gentleman

Your turn Richard...

[Saturn]

I hope nobody's going to be cheating in this game by looking the lines up on the web

[dks]

I hope nobody's going to be cheating in this game by looking the lines up on the web

Please. I look them up arduously, by hand, manually, in my tattered Complete Works...frantically, I might add. It's funny, though, how even when you've read the poem more than once, you sometimes have to comb back through to cull certain lines again.

Good show, Richard.

This game is getting good.

[Saturn]

Still waiting on your question Richard.

The rules are if you get one correct then you pose the next question