 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
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 288 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 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...ecstacy ! Still wouldst thon sing, and I have ears in vain—- To thy high requiem become a sqd. Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird ! No hungry...stood in tears amid the alien corn : The same that of times hath Charmed magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 390 pages
...wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. 7Thou wast not bom for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread...amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charmed magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. 8. Forlorn!... | |
 | Laurel - 1879 - 438 pages
...passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown : Perhaps the selfsame song thaUfound a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for...hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas in fairy lands forlorn. Forlorn ! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee... | |
 | Edwin Harrison Cady, Louis J. Budd - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 280 pages
...mounch'd and mounch'd. 'Give me,' quoth I. 'Aroint thec, witch!' the rump-fed ronyon cries. Or Keats: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through...hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. Or Coleridge's familiar "A savage place; as holy and enchanted... | |
 | Edwin Harrison Cady, Louis J. Budd - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 276 pages
...mounch'd and mounch'd. 'Give me,' quoth I. 'Aroint thee, witch!' the rump-fed ronyon cries. Or Keats: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through...amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charm 'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. Or Coleridge's... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. VII The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient...hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. VIII Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...49 Darkling I listen; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, (1. 51-52) 50 y of innuendos, (1. 13—15) 66 Charmed magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. (1. 63—70)... | |
 | Stuart M. Sperry - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 376 pages
...realization is restrained almost voluptuously and only gradually permitted to infiltrate awareness: The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient...hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. (63-70) The poet's conviction of identification with the bird,... | |
 | John Keats, Robert Gittings - Literary Collections - 1995 - 324 pages
...tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: 65 Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through...amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charm' d magic casements, opening on the foam 70 Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. 8 Forlorn!... | |
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