 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...  The Book of Georgian Verse - Page 1083edited by - 1909 - 1313 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Keats - 1856 - 326 pages
...eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. 6. Darkling I listen ; and for many a time I have been...thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high reoniiem become a sod. 7Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry generations tread thee... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...eves. VI. Darkling I listen ; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful death, CalPd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into...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... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 644 pages
...and the fruit-tree wild ; White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine ; Fast-fading violets cover' d up in leaves ; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming...down ; The voice I hear this passing night was heard Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of liuth, when, sick for home. She... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 642 pages
...cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring "forth thy soul abroad In such an eestasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain To...down ; The voice I hear this passing night was heard Perhaps the self-same song that found a palh Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home. She... | |
 | William Hone - 1859 - 880 pages
...eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer evt». 6. Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been...ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. r. Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice... | |
 | English poetry - 1890 - 366 pages
...Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways. I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft...No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice 1 hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown : Perhaps the self-same song... | |
 | David Grant - English poetry - 1865 - 428 pages
...quiet breath ; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, Whilst thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an...generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing njght was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown : Perhaps the self-same song that found a path... | |
 | Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 pages
...eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. VI. Darkling I listen; and for many a time" I have been...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... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1868 - 310 pages
...— "Darkling, I listen ; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death ; Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into...have ears in vain To thy high requiem, become a sod." From that new masterpiece of Tennyson's genius " Lucretius," the following lines are taken : — "... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1868 - 360 pages
...: — "Darkling, I listen; and for many a time I have been half hi love with easeful Death; Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into...have ears in vain To thy high requiem, become a sod." 178 From that new masterpiece of Tennyson's genius " Lucretius," the following lines are taken : —... | |
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