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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... "
The Book of Georgian Verse - Page 1083
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The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry

Harold Bloom - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 516 pages
...space flee away, and the border between being and non-being, life and death, seems to crumble: Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the...ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. Two attitudes toward death, the first shading into the second, are involved in this beautiful but disturbed...
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Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries

Edgar Mertner, Leigh Hunt, Leigh Hunt - 968 pages
...violets covered up in leaves ; "And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose full of dewyjwine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. Darkling...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...
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Best Remembered Poems

Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunts 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 The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the...
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Keats, Narrative and Audience: The Posthumous Life of Writing

Andrew Bennett - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 272 pages
...explicitly elaborates an aesthetics of response in terms of the subject's self- transcendence, or death: Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been...have ears in vain To thy high requiem become a sod. Just as 'Ode to Psyche' reverses inspiration by figuring poetic making as a breathing into, so in this...
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine. The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. 50 Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been...ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod, 60 Thou wast not bom for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice 1 hear...
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Selected Poems and Letters of Keats

John Keats, Robert Gittings - Literary Collections - 1995 - 324 pages
...Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; 55 Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the...ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — 60 To thy high requiem become a sod. 66 Ruth - in the biblical story, Ruth was forced into exile...
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John Keats and the Loss of Romantic Innocence

Keith D. White - Apollo (Greek deity) in literature - 1996 - 224 pages
...Keats's thoughts in this ideal bower. Again, however, notice that the absence of light is stressed: Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been...ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. The reader is left with the impression that this ideal world is also Keats's concept of death. For...
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Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse

Mary Oliver - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 212 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 I...
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The Orphaned Imagination: Melancholy and Commodity Culture in English ...

Guinn Batten - Business & Economics - 1998 - 326 pages
...performative speech act that seems to make manifest the uncanny presence, and power, of his deadly auditor: Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been...have ears in vain— To thy high requiem become a sod.H If the poetic performative restored the melancholic Wordsworth and even the dejected Coleridge...
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Keats

Andrew Motion - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 702 pages
...soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever it seems rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain,...ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. As Keats contemplates quitting the world altogether, his grief about the loss of its mixed blessings...
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