 Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick...  The Oral Study of Literature - Page 312by Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 431 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Keats - 1873 - 351 pages
...! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. VII. Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry...hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. VIIL Forlorn ! the very word is like a bell To toll me back... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 534 pages
...wide around, the woods Sigh to her song, and with her wail resound. THOMSON. THE NIGHTINGALE. THOU wast not born for death, immortal bird ! No hungry...amid the alien corn ; The same that oft-times hath Charmed masic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. KEATS. THE NIGHTINGALE.... | |
 | 1874
...Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird. No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I heard this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor...amid the alien corn ; The same that oft-times hath Charra'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn. Contrast this... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1874
...SHELLEY, Ode to a Skylark. 9 No Nightingale, &c. Cf. "The voice I heard this passing night was heard Tn ancient days by emperor and clown. Perhaps the selfsame...amid the alien corn ; The same that ofttimes hath Charmed magic casements opening on the foam Of perilous seas in fairy lands forlorn." KEATS, Ode to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 534 pages
...THOMSON. THE NIGHTINGALE. THOU wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thec Perhaps the selfsame song that found a path Through...amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charmed magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. KEATs. THE NIGHTINGALE.... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - American literature - 1875 - 608 pages
...summer eves. Darkling I listen ; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a muse'd rhyme, To take into...amid the alien corn ; The same that oft-times hath Charmed magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. Forlorn ! the... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 543 pages
...the midnight, with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad , In such an ecstasy ! Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird ! No hungry...amid the alien corn : The same that oft-times hath Charmed magic casements opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn. Forlorn ! the... | |
 | Poetry of places - 1876
...summer eves. 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...tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charmed magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in fairy-lands forlorn. Forlorn! the... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876
...sweet to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul on high In such an ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and...stood in tears amid the alien corn, The same that oft times hath Charmed magic casements opening On the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - English literature - 1876
...cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy t + ߛ 0 Charmed magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. Forlorn ! the... | |
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