 | Literature - 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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 484 pages
...great beauty, the ' Ode to a Nightingale,' may serve as a companion to Shelley's ' Skylark :'— My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-ward had sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, ^ But being too happy in thine happiness,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 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 - English poetry - 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 - English poetry - 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 - 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 - English poetry - 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... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1846 - 574 pages
...perusal of its mellifluous numbers. Take the following specimen, all we can afford to present : — ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. ' My heart aches, and a drowsy...some dull opiate to the drains, One minute past, and Lethe-ward had sunk; 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 372 pages
...of hemlock I bad drunk. Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Letbe-wards had sunk. 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,...light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beeches green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. O for a draught of... | |
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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... 
