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" Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While... "
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When Your Way Gets Dark: A Rhetoric of the Blues

Jeffrey Carroll - Blues (Music) - 2005 - 208 pages
...mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! (51-58) Calt goes after an "Orientalism" that has infected much discussion of the blues since Charters,...
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Europa in Grande Sertao: Veredas - Grande Sertao: Veredas in Europa

Stefan Kutzenberger - Brazilian fiction - 2005 - 314 pages
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Poetics of Self and Form in Keats and Shelley: Nietzschean Subjectivity and ...

Mark Sandy - History - 2005 - 172 pages
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Poetry, Therapy and Emotional Life

Diana Hedges - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 188 pages
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Lines in the Dirt: Some Works Of 1978-2004

Victor Chen - History - 2005 - 527 pages
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The Invention of Evening: Perception and Time in Romantic Poetry

Christopher R. Miller - Art - 2006 - 12 pages
...holds the prospect of heaven in agnostic suspension: Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring...ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. (55-60) Ensconced in his "mossy cell," the Penseroso hopes his systematic study of nature ("every star...
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The English Reader: What Every Literate Person Needs to Know

Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 512 pages
...mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring...ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. VII Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I...
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"And Never Know the Joy": Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry

C. C. Barfoot - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 504 pages
...experience, hence the claim in the sixth stanza that Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring...have ears in vain To thy high requiem become a sod. (11. 55-60) The word "ecstasy" in this context suggests the ecstasy of orgasm, la petite mort ("little...
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