 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...  Chambers's Pocket Miscellany - Page 721854Full view - About this book
 | Illinois - 1873 - 1092 pages
...luxury generations tread tlico down; The voice I heard thi« passing night was be,ird In ancient daya by Emperor and clown ; Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad licart of Kuth, when, Mirk from home. She stood in toar« amid the alien corn ; The наше that... | |
 | John Keats - 1874 - 320 pages
...ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. vn. Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry...found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien com ; The same that oft-times hath Charmed magic casements,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1874 - 870 pages
...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... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - Oral reading - 1874 - 336 pages
...tread thee down ; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown1 : Perhaps the self-same song, that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien2 corn — The same that ofttimes hath Charmed magic... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1875 - 356 pages
...! Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice 1 hear this passing night was heard In ancient days...found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn ; . LThe same that oft-times hath ~~ 7 1'harm'd... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1875 - 1008 pages
...Bristol, for the purpose of calling attention to the echo of the one in the other : — The voice I heard this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor...that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth when sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn. Everywhere about us are they glowing, Some, like... | |
 | Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen - Northmen - 1875 - 320 pages
...Keats he had also found a line which for its association with Ruth had become infinitely dear to him : Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn. To be sure he had never seen Ruth in tears,... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 pages
...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.... | |
 | John Dennis - English literature - 1876 - 466 pages
...higher power of suggestiveness than the ' Ode to-a Nightingale.' Listen but to one stanza of it : " Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry...found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in ttars amid the alien corn ; The same that oft-times hath Charmed magic... | |
 | 1877 - 832 pages
...idea here is a trifle complex 1 , but the music is exquisite. Keats has the same perfection :— Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry...stood in tears amid the alien corn ; The same that oft times hath Charmed magic casements, opening en the foam Of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn.... | |
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