 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1857 - 374 pages
...him. No one since Spenser has possessed a more graphic pen. His processions not only live, they move. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. My heart aches, and a drowsy...numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drank, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tis not... | |
 | William Hone - 1859 - 880 pages
...last poems was in prospect of departure from his native shores. It is an Ode to a Nightingalt. 1. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains Oue minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 580 pages
...which, of 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 heing too happy in thine happiness,... | |
 | 1861 - 520 pages
...circumstance and sensation, the imagination of which soothes and refreshes. Thus, in the well-known Ode to the Nightingale — " My heart aches and a drowsy numbness...emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute paat, and Lethe-warda had sunk." In this state he hears the nightingale, and straightway finds his... | |
 | English poetry - 1890 - 366 pages
...Again appears to be An unsubstantial, fairy place That is fit home for Thee ! W. Wordsworth CCXL1V ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE My heart aches, and a drowsy...numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drank, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tis not... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...to be An unsubstantial, fairy place That is fit home for Thee ! W. Wordsworth ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tis not through... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1862 - 578 pages
...which, of 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,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1863 - 564 pages
...which, of 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: "i'is not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness,... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Outdoor life - 1865 - 116 pages
...breathe, how short soever ; Thou that makest a day of night, Goddess excellently bright ! Ben Jonson. 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,... | |
 | Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 pages
...his silver hair, And be like him, and he will then love me. W. Blake. CVIII. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. Y 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 thy happiness,... | |
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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... 
