The lunatic, the lover and the poet

Are of imagination all compact:

One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,

[010] That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,

Sees Helen’s beauty in a brow of Egypt:

[012] The poet’s eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,

Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;

[014] And as imagination bodies forth

015 The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen

[016] Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing