Keats, 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 in fealty° to Apollo hold.	loyalty
5	Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
	That deep-brow’d Homer ruled as his demesne;°	realm
	Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
	Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
	Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
10	When a new planet swims into his ken;°	awareness
	Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
	He stared at the Pacific—and all his men
	Look’d at each other with a wild surmise—
	Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

Notes

new planet: New planets don’t get discovered often, but Uranus had been discovered by German-English astronomer William Herschel in 1781.
Cortez: Hernán Cortés (1485–1547), a Spanish conquistador, was an early European explorer of the North American continent, but Keats goofs here — it was actually another Spaniard, Vasco Núñez de Balboa (c. 1475–1519), who was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean.