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
| Richard Hayman - 2003 - 300 pages
...on suffering and the consolation of art through the bird in its greenwood habitat. The nightingale In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.10 This is contrasted with the world of men where 'to think is to be full of sorrow'. The only... | |
| John R. Strachan - 2003 - 218 pages
...8 Lethe was the Hadean river which brought oblivion to all who drank of its waters. 19 Wood-nymph. Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. 10 2 O, for a draught of vintage!20 that hath been Cool'da long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting... | |
| Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 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. O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cool'da long age in the deep -delved earth, Tasting of... | |
| Deborah Forbes - 2004 - 260 pages
...the speaker's flickering mind: Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the...shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.19 But the state of mind in the first part of the stanza and the "light-winged Dryad" retrospectively... | |
| Martin Garrett - 2006 - 260 pages
...t:airinna Davidson: Muscril Orv Jacket design: Basi-linc Ai is OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS www.oup.com "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 Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth! O for a beaker... | |
| Jean Aitchison - 2007 - 284 pages
...set of topics only. In his 'Ode to a nightingale', the poet John Keats envies the nightingale: . . . thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious...shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.12 Yet birds are restricted in what they can warble about. Keats's nightingale was more likely... | |
| Jean Aitchison - 2007 - 213 pages
...topics only. In his 'Ode to a nightingale', the poet John Keats envies the nightingale: . . . them, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious...shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.12 Yet birds are restricted in what they can warble about. Keats's nightingale was more likely... | |
| Nancy Bogen - 2007 - 426 pages
...melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows 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 Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth! O for a beaker... | |
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