 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 : Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy...  The Indicator - Page 345edited by - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Eric Partridge - 1997 - 406 pages
...thy happiness That thou, light- winged dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot 241 POETS' LICENCE Of beechen green and shadows numberless Singest of summer in full-throated ease. It may be mentioned first that the idea of emptying ...to the drains is too suggestive of the kitchen-sink;... | |
 | Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 pages
...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 Dryad of the...numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. II O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cool'da long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of... | |
 | Merriam-Webster, Inc - 1998 - 454 pages
...through envy of thy happy lot. But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen...numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. If the quotation does not start at the beginning of a line, it should be indented accordingly. I do... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pages
...through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness,— That thou, light- winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen...numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. II O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been CooFd a long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of... | |
 | John L. Kundert-Gibbs - 1999 - 264 pages
...green" — from Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale,"16 the full line of which is: That thou, light- winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen...shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.17 The allusion itself is telling, as the poem is a romantic confrontation of man's sorrow with... | |
 | Thomas McFarland - 2000 - 268 pages
...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 Dryad of the...shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.73 71 Keats, Poems, 369: 'Ode to a Nightingale', lines l-1o. The sensuousness of the first four... | |
 | Frances Mayes - 2001 - 548 pages
...' Lethe-wards: towards Lethe, river in Hades whose water induces forgetrulness. -Dryad: wood nymph. In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows...numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. O for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of Flora'... | |
 | Rajini Srikanth, Esther Yae Iwanaga - 2001 - 472 pages
...water swishing through the overhead pipes. He won't be down for another half-hour. Tea, I think, and "O for a draught of vintage that hath been / Cool'da long age in the deep-delved earth, " ambles into my head. I try to dismiss Keats, but he follows me with "My heart aches and a drowsy... | |
 | David S. Lopez, Jr. - 2002 - 312 pages
...nothing, in eighty lines, concerning the nightingale itself. Take, for example, the second verse: O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cool'da long age in the deep-delved earth. Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance and Provencoal song, and sunburnt mirth! O for a beaker... | |
 | Robert Grilley - 2003 - 212 pages
...need a bookmark there anymore. 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the...numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. Awfully good when you've had a few. The next day de Jonckheere dropped by our hut and told Russell... | |
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