l. 81. _not delay'd_: classical construction. See Introduction to Hyperion. _Star of Lethe._ Hermes is so called because he had to lead the souls of the dead to Hades, where was Lethe, the river of forgetfulness. Lamb comments: '. . . Hermes, the _Star of Lethe_, as he is called by one of those prodigal phrases which Mr. Keats abounds in, which are each a poem in a word, and which in this instance lays open to us at once, like a picture, all the dim regions and their habitants, and the sudden coming of a celestial among them.' l. 91. The line dances along like a leaf before the wind. l. 92. Miltonic construction and phraseology. PAGE 9. l. 98. _weary tendrils_, tired with holding up the boughs, heavy with fruit. l. 103. _Silenus_, the nurse and teacher of Bacchus--a demigod of the woods. PAGE 10. l. 115. _Circean._ Circe was the great enchantress who turned the followers of Ulysses into swine. Cf. _Comus_, ll. 46-54, and _Odyssey_, x. PAGE 11. l. 132. _swoon'd serpent._ Evidently, in the exercise of her magic, power had gone out of her. l. 133. _lythe_, quick-acting. _Caducean charm._ Caduceus was the name of Hermes' staff of wondrous powers, the touch of which, evidently, was powerful to give the serpent human form. l. 136. _like a moon in wane._ Cf. the picture of Cynthia, _Endymion_, iii. 72 sq. l. 138. _like a flower . . . hour._ Perhaps a reminiscence of Milton's 'at shut of evening flowers.' _Paradise Lost_, ix. 278. PAGE 12. l. 148. _besprent_, sprinkled. l. 158. _brede_, embroidery. Cf. _Ode on a Grecian Urn_, v. 1. PAGE 13. l. 178. _rack._ Cf. _The Tempest_, IV. i. 156, 'leave not a rack behind.' _Hyperion_, i. 302, note. l. 180. This gives us a feeling of weakness and weariness as well as measuring the distance. PAGE 14. l. 184. Cf. Wordsworth: And then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils. ll. 191-200. Cf. _Ode on Melancholy_, where Keats tells us that melancholy lives with Beauty, joy, pleasure, and delight. Lamia can separate the elements and give beauty and pleasure unalloyed. l. 195. _Intrigue with the specious chaos_, enter on an understanding with the fair-looking confusion of joy and pain. l. 198. _unshent_, unreproached. PAGE 15. l. 207. _Nereids_, sea-nymphs. l. 208. _Thetis_, one of the sea deities. l. 210. _glutinous_, referring to the sticky substance which oozes from the pine-trunk. Cf. _Comus_, l. 917, 'smeared with gums of glutinous heat.' l. 211. Cf. l. 63, note. l. 212. _Mulciber_, Vulcan, the smith of the Gods. His fall from Heaven is described by Milton, _Paradise Lost_, i. 739-42. _piazzian_, forming covered walks supported by pillars, a word coined by Keats. PAGE 16. l. 236. _In the calm'd . . . shades._ In consideration of Plato's mystic and imaginative philosophy.