 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1842 - 440 էջ
...moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for Heaven's grace and boon. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. MY heart aches, and a drowsy...happiness, — That thou, light-winged dryad of the trees, O for a draught of vintage, that hath been Cool'da long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of Flora... | |
 | 1862 - 512 էջ
...bandit's den, Are things to brood on with more ardency Than the death-day of empires. Awn i»rfim, -«. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. My heart aches, and a drowsy...drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: "Pis not through pnvy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — That thou, light-winged... | |
 | Readings - 1843 - 466 էջ
...beauties; they lead us rather to regret the loss of what he mighthave done, than to admire what we possess. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. MY heart aches, and a drowsy...happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness,— In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated... | |
 | 1843 - 368 էջ
...swiftness brings, When birds of paradise have lent Their plumage to his wings ? JOHN KEATS. 1796-1821. ODEE TO A NIGHTINGALE. MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness...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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 էջ
...out a shout most heaven-rending, Conjure thee to receive our humble Ptean, Upon thy Mount Lycean ! hould fate command me to the farthest verge Of the...Indian mountains, or his setting beam Flames on $ Imppy lot But being too happy in thy happiness, That thou, light-winged" Dryad of the trees, In some... | |
 | 1895 - 862 էջ
...desire." Some mood akin to this seems to steal over the poet as he opens the ode with the liues : — My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense...the drains One minute past, and Lethewards had sunk. But note, it is only " Lethewards," only to the brink of Lethe, the river of oblivion, that the poet... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 484 էջ
...great beauty, the ' Ode to a Nightingale,' may serve as a companion to Shelley's ' Skylark :'— 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 thine happiness,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 էջ
...shut of eve In dull JVovember, and their chancel vault, The heaven itself, is blinded throughout night ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE." My heart aches, and a drowsy...drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk. *T is not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, That thou, light-winged... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 էջ
...boundaries of day and night, He stretch'd himself, in grief and radiance faint. OTHER TITANS FALLEN. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE." My heart aches, and a drowsy...drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk. 'T is not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, That thou, light-winged... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 էջ
...boundaries of day and night, He stretch'd himself, in grief and radiance faint. OTHER TITANS FALLEN. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE.* My heart aches, and a drowsy...drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk. 'T is not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, That thou, light-winged... | |
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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... 
