 Ode to a Nightingale My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy...  Chambers's Pocket Miscellany - Page 711854Full view - About this book
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1853 - 378 pages
...has possessed a more graphic pen. His processions not only live, they move. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness,— That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees-, In some melodious plot Of beechen green,... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...children's dower, — Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower ! BOBEKT BROWKIKO. JOHN LYLY. 79 ' a My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk ; 'T is not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness — That thou, light-winged... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...back, when night her folding veil hath spread, The long remembered dead! HEMANS. THE NIGHTINGALE. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe- wards had sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness,... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...the merry songster in the garden below. It opens with a painful description of his own sad state. MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains I One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk ; Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - English poetry - 1853 - 548 pages
...would that hand appear, And o'er my eyes the trembling moisture «hake ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. 1. MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiato to the drains One minute post, and Lethe-wards had sunk Tie not through envy of thy happy lot,... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 584 pages
...of the Poet's song, and not the Nightingale's. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute passed, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1854 - 482 pages
...SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDUK. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. My heart nches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, ns though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-ward sunk : "Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, Than... | |
 | John Keats - 1855 - 416 pages
...oft would that hand appear, And o'er my eyes the trembling moisture shake. ODE TO A KEGHTIXGALE. MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green,... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 510 pages
...song, Like tipsy joy that reels with tossing head. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDOE. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-ward sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, Than... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...has possessed a more graphic pen. His processions not only live, they move. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...some dull opiate to the drains One minute past and Lethe-ward had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness,... | |
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