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| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1847 - 606 pages
...numbers. Take the following specimen, all we can afford to present : — 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,... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - English poetry - 1847 - 556 pages
...eyes the trembling mouture shake ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. 1. Mr heart aches, and a drowsy numbness paint My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied...the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk Т is not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — • That thou, light-winged... | |
| John Keats - 1847 - 280 pages
...thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness,— That I Inm, light-winged Dryad of the treea, My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated... | |
| George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 pages
...whistles from a garden-croft ; And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. TO THE NIGHTINGALE. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : *Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light-winged... | |
| George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...TO THE NIGHTINGALE. M v heart aclies, and a drowsy numbness paint My sense, as though of hemlock f had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light-winged... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 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,—... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...humble Pœan, Upon thy Mount Lycean ! Ode to a Nightingale, My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pain« he »teed to battle : 'Tie not through envy of thy happy lot But being too happy in thy happiness, That thou, light-winged... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1852 - 680 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,...the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tia not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness — That thou, light-winged... | |
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...aber sie ward ihm nicht; er starti am 24. Februar 1821 in Rom. 282 Keats. Ode to a Nightingale. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — That thou, light-winged... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1853 - 378 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,...drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness,— That thou, light-winged... | |
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