This poem's fourth stanza mentions a "green altar" where a "mysterious priest" leads a heifer to be sacrificed.
This poem's fourth stanza mentions a "green altar" where a "mysterious priest" leads a heifer to be sacrificed. Its second stanza gives a command to "pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone" because "heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/ Are sweeter." To the fair youth beneath the trees who cannot leave her song, the "happy melodist" "for ever piping songs for ever new," the poet ascribes "more happy, happy love!" Its opening stanza asks "what leaf- fringed legend haunts about thy shape," and refers to the title object as a "sylvan historian" and a "still unravished bride of quietness." FTP, name this poem ending with the lines "'beauty is truth, truth beauty' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know," an ode by John Keats.
This poem's fourth stanza mentions a "green altar" where a "mysterious priest" leads a heifer to be sacrificed.
"{Ode on a Grecian Urn}"