 Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While...  The English Poets: Wordsworth to Tennyson - Page 449by Thomas Humphry Ward - 1902Full view - About this book
 | John Keats - 1863 - 496 pages
...eves. Darkling I- listen ; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into...thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstacy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. Thou... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1865 - 116 pages
...and the pastoral eglantine ; Fast-fading violets, covered up in leaves ; And mid-May's oldest child, Darkling I listen ; and for many a time I have been...pouring forth thy soul abroad, In such an ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. Thou wast... | |
 | David Grant - 1865 - 428 pages
...eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. Darkling I listen ; and for many a time I have been...it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, Whilst thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and... | |
 | Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 pages
...eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. Darkling I listen ; and for many a time I have been...art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. Thou wast... | |
 | Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 pages
...eves. VI. Darkling I listen; and for many a time" I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into...pouring forth thy soul abroad, In such an ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain— To thy high requiem become a sod. VII. Thou wast... | |
 | Penny readings - 1866 - 304 pages
...summer eves. Darkling I listen ; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into...art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. Thou wast... | |
 | Moxon Edward and co - 200 pages
...summer eves. Darkling I listen ; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into...thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ectasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. Thou... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1867 - 360 pages
...of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. Darkling I listen ; and for many a time To take into the air my quiet breath ; Now more than...pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, In such an... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1868 - 310 pages
...quotation or two from our own poets. In his Ode to a Nightingale, Keats has the following stanza : — "Darkling, I listen ; and for many a time I have been...art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain To thy high requiem, become a sod." From that new... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1868 - 360 pages
...Nightingale, Keats has the following stanza : — "Darkling, I listen; and for many a time I have been half hi love with easeful Death; Called him soft names in...art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain To thy high requiem, become a sod." 178 From that... | |
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