 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...  Chambers's Pocket Miscellany - Page 721854Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Mann - 2002 - 1278 pages
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 | Joseph Epstein - Literary Collections - 2007 - 446 pages
...ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth my soul abroad In such an ecstasy! Still wouldst thou...ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. Some seven hours later, finally having lost the fight against drowning being waged in his own lungs,... | |
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...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! (Ode to a Nightingale 51-58) Baudelaire said of Delacroix that he was the foremost "modern" painter... | |
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...throne, clustered around with all her starry fays.... 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."... (1819) je suis tout avec toi ! tendre est la nuit et la reine, la Iune, est sur son trdne, entouree... | |
 | Marina Warner - Social Science - 2007 - 470 pages
...strikes a strong contrast between his heaviness ('My heart aches') and the bird's light-winged joyousness ('While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad/ In such an ecstasy'). But he does modulate the mood of the ode in accord with his mythical sources, and closes the poem on... | |
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