In the canon
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
- Form
- Form Poem
- Year
- Year 1817
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- Pages 1
"My spirit is too weak," the poem begins, and it means every word. In a room of the British Museum stand the sculptures Lord Elgin carried off the Parthenon, horsemen and gods and torsos broken at the neck, and the young Keats has come with his friend the painter Benjamin Haydon to look at them.
My spirit is too weak—mortality / Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep,
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