Ode to Psyche
Wandering thoughtlessly in a forest, the speaker comes on two figures couched side by side in deep grass among hushed cool-rooted flowers, and recognises the winged boy and the girl beside him. Because she came too late for the antique vows — no temple, no altar, no pale-mouthed prophet dreaming — he offers to be her priest and to build the fane in some untrodden region of his own mind. The story is Apuleius's, reaching Keats through Lemprière and Mary Tighe, and this is the first of the 1819 odes.
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- responds to ↑ Cupid and Psyche
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- 62% · 12 shared
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- 56% · 11 shared