...above, That leaves a heart high sorrowful and cloyed, A burning forehead, and a parching tongue, Who are these coming to the sacrifice ? To what green...with garlands drest ? What little town by river or sea-shore, Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of its folk, this pious morn ? And,...

...above, That leaves a heart high sorrowful and cloyed, A burning forehead, and a parching tongue. Who are these coming to the sacrifice? To what green altar,...with garlands drest? What little town by river or sea-shore, Or mountain built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of its folk this pious morn ? Ah! little...

...is haunted by the mass killings which accompanied the Fete de l'Etre Supreme during June 1 794: Who are these coming to the sacrifice? To what green altar,...garlands drest? What little town by river or sea shore, Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn? And, little town,...

...med blomsterflor f0res til offerstedet, hvor den far sin funktion i den kosmiske orden: Who are those coming to the sacrifice? To what green altar, O mysterious...the skies And all her silken flanks with garlands dressed? Sâledes konverteres dodens gru hos romantikeren Keats til evighedens salighed - pâ samme...

...or by what can't be seen on it. "What men or gods are these?" he wants to know, "What maidens loth?" "To what green altar, O mysterious priest, / Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies?" The first questions ask for information that isn't forthcoming, the last for a scene that isn't painted....

.... foul or fair." Here we have the violence that is displaced by the mystery and beauty of the Ode's "heifer lowing at the skies, / And all her silken flanks with garlands dressed" (Grecian Um 33—4). In both cases we know what will happen to the sacrificial animal; but...

...Stanza 4 describes in a series of interrogatives a sacrifice in an equally mysterious fashion: Who are these coming to the sacrifice? To what green altar,...garlands drest? What little town by river or sea shore, Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn? Even from the very...

...above, That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd, 30 A burning forehead, and a parching tongue. Who are these coming to the sacrifice? To what green altar,...skies, And all her silken flanks with garlands drest? 35 What little town by river or sea shore. Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of this...

...clear the manner of the conventional mode. But wherein Keats's What little town by river or seashore Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn? is Greek (apart from setting), "as Greek as a thing from Homer or Theocritus," it is impossible to...

...'Tis not for worldly pomp I wish to see / The rebel, 43 The Elgin Marbles, South Frieze, slab XL: 'Who are these coming to the sacrifice? / To what green...priest, / Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies?' 44 Drawing or tracing by Keats of the Sosibios Vase. 4! 45 High Street, Belfast, c. 1810. Keats and...