John Keats - On Seeing the Elgin Marbles

6/17/2009 12:47:00 PM In , ,

My spirit is too weak- mortality
Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep,
And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep
Of godlike hardship tells me I must die
Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.
- John Keats
- On Seeing the Elgin Marbles