 | Enaeas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 362 σελίδες
...the perfection of enjoyment is firmly maintained. K«u. Take this from Keats, where he addresses the nightingale : My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness...drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One miuute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk ; "Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 σελίδες
...While his bow'd head seem'd listening to the Earth, His ancient mother, for some comfort yet. FROM "ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE." MY heart aches, and a drowsy...the 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... | |
 | Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 σελίδες
...precedent for elaborate and irregular— but repeated— stanzas like those in the odes of Keats: My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...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—... | |
 | Jennie Wang - 1997 - 248 σελίδες
...melodies" of Keats's poem. The setting, the mood, the tone of "Delta Autumn" are all cast in the mode of "Ode to a Nightingale": My heart aches, and a drowsy...pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs, Where... | |
 | Eric Partridge - 1997 - 406 σελίδες
...I had drunk Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past and Lethewards had sunk. 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness That thou, light- winged dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot 241 POETS' LICENCE Of beechen green and shadows... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 σελίδες
..."Miniver Cheevy," "Leda and the Swan," and "Ulysses." FORM : Italian sonnet rhyming abbaabbacdcdcd. 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 thine happiness,— That thou, light-... | |
 | Merriam-Webster, Inc - 1998 - 454 σελίδες
...famous first stanza may have given the English-speaking world its lasting image of the Romantic poet: 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 thine happiness, — That thou, light... | |
 | Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 σελίδες
...— Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings. 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 thine happiness, — That thou, light-winged... | |
 | Marina Yaguello - 1998 - 190 σελίδες
...Keats's 'Ode to a Nightingale': My heart arhes, and a drowsy numbness ptans My sense, as though of hemhvk I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: Tis not through env8 of thy happy /ot, But being too happy in thine haptnness, That thou, light-winged... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - 1999 - 199 σελίδες
...Drang with comedy. Keats shaves his head; Shelley frizzes out his hair; Byron submits to a bowl-cut. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Keats sighs, his head stuck in a cannon. Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons,... | |
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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... 
