 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...  Odes and Epodes - Page 479by Horace - 1898 - 487 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Readings - 1843 - 466 pages
...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...drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness,— In some melodious... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...out a shout most heaven -rend ing, Conjure thee to receive our humble Pœan, Upon thy Mount Lyccan ! he : "Tis not through envy of thy happy lot But being too happy in thy happiness, That thou, light-winged... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...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 : 'Tis not through envy of thy Imppy lot But being too happy in thy happiness, That thou, light-winged"... | |
 | 1895 - 862 pages
...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 pages
...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 - 372 pages
...shut of eve In dull November, 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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - 280 pages
...shut of eve In dull November, 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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...den, Are things to brood on with more ardency Than the death-day of empires. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. MT heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...the 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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