Kamo No Chomei to Fujiwara No Teika.3./
Created | Updated Apr 17, 2005
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Kamo No Chomei to Fujiwara No Teika.3./
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Kamo No Chomei to Fujiwara No Teika
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The lunatic, the lover, and the poet,
Are of imagination all compact:
One see's more devil's than vast hell can
hold,
That is the madman; the lover, all as frantic,
See's Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from earth to heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And, as imagination bodies forth
The form's of thing's unknown, the poet's pen
Turn's them to shape's, and give's to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
Such trick's hath strong imagination,
That, if it would but apprehend some joy,
It comprehend's some bringer of that joy;
Or in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush suppos'd a bear! V, i, 7
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Kamo No Chomei to Fujiwara No Teika.3./
<eureka>
Kamo No Chomei to Fujiwara No Teika
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The lunatic, the lover, and the poet,
Are of imagination all compact:
One see's more devil's than vast hell can
hold,
That is the madman; the lover, all as frantic,
See's Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from earth to heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And, as imagination bodies forth
The form's of thing's unknown, the poet's pen
Turn's them to shape's, and give's to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
Such trick's hath strong imagination,
That, if it would but apprehend some joy,
It comprehend's some bringer of that joy;
Or in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush suppos'd a bear! V, i, 7
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