 | 1854 - 400 pages
...touching in a most affecting manner on his own sad state. It is worthy of being given entire — * My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated case. O for a draught of vintage ! that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...gathering swallows twitter in the skieĢ TO THE NIGHTINGALE. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pain* My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied...numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. O, for a draught of vintage ! that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
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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... 
