 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - Poetry - 2007 - 778 pages
...thought! Gives even affliction a grace, And reconciles man to his lot. WILLIAM COWPER ENGLISH (1731-1800) Ode to a Nightingale My heart aches, and a drowsy...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 green,... | |
 | J. S. Borthwick - Fiction - 2004 - 392 pages
...gown, pulled the pillow under her neck and fixed Clare Mitchner with a steely eye and intoned: "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk. " "Aunt Julia," exclaimed Sarah admiringly, "why, that's Keats." "I am not," said Julia complacently,... | |
 | Deborah Forbes - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 260 pages
...introduced to a speaker whose equivocal state of consciousness at first appears to have no cause: My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk.18 Keats here depicts a characteristic mood, balanced precariously on the boundary between consciousness... | |
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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... 
