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
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 478 pages
...TO A NIGHTINGALE. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, ns though of hemlock I hud 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... | |
| Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...fair hath made ; All other fair, like flowers untimely fade. SPENSER. o 2 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-wing'd Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green,... | |
| John Keats - 1856 - 326 pages
...would that hand appear, And o'er my eyes the trembling moisture shake. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. 1. 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 treea, 2. 0 for a draught of vintage, that... | |
| David Macbeth Moir - English poetry - 1856 - 362 pages
...flow from a far more profound fountain of inspiration. After addressing the bird as a " light- winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green and shadows numberless, Singing of summer in full-throated ease," he adds, somewhat fantastically, it must be owned, at first—... | |
| Nature in literature - 1864 - 148 pages
...rivers ; and the eve Shall close o'er the brown woods as it was wont. IDLE MAN. THE 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,... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - American poetry - 1857 - 436 pages
...leaves which are her winding-sheet. -% - • • . v: v ,.' SgppppEE KEATS. 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,... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - American poetry - 1857 - 426 pages
...leaves which iri-e her winding-sheet. 132 A3 I ':m:lJgg KEATS. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. MY heart nches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of...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,... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1857 - 374 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, as though of hemlock I had drank, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tis not... | |
| Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...whistles from a garden croft, And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. 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... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 642 pages
...Disturbing not the leaves which are her winding-sheet. No, not thee ! KEATS. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute...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,... | |
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