...5, 3, 5. Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia, The gods themselves throw incense. — Lear, 5, 3, 20. Deep in the shady sadness of a vale, Far sunken from...morn, Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat grey-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone. — Keats. 262. Emphasis is sometimes obtained by putting forward...

...easy, finished, beautiful, even classically elegant. The opening verses have seldom been excelled: Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from the fiery moon, and eve's one star, Sat gray-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about...

...character. In the first version the poetic craftsmanship is devoted mainly to realizing the scene: Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from...morn. Far from the fiery noon, and 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...

...all its tragic and elegiac connotations. The all-pervading stillness in the opening lines of Hyperion Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from...morn, Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; . . . is indeed the...

...lines of the poem are perhaps the most impressive evocation in all poetry of an absolute dead-end: Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from...morn, Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat gray-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung...

...they dwelt — so their critics among the converts believed — like the superseded gods in Hyperion : "Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn." Their suspicions, nourished by timidity and ignorance, led ihcm to prefer the torpid security of the...

...opening, in which Saturn and Thea are seen at once as gods and as humans, provides a good example. 56 Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from...morn, Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat grey-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung...

...[who] seem to freeze, / Emprisoned in black, purgatorial rails." Saturn at the beginning of Hyperion "quiet as a stone, / Still as the silence round about his lair." There hardly exists a single of Keats's important poems in which a version of this recurrent theme...

...insulting light / Could glimmer on their tears; where their own groans / They felt, but heard not," a "shady sadness of a vale / Far sunken from the healthy...morn, / Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star" (II, 57; I, 1-3). Before Hyperion's insulting light came among the mammoth brood, furthermore, they...

...influenced by those of Apollo, that occur shortly before the vision begins and we hear the familiar 'Deep in the shady sadness of a vale, / Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn': So at the view of sad Moneta's brow, I ached to see what things the hollow brain Behind enwombed: what...