...of the Lord was kindled against the people. Keats was also aware of the effects of hemlock as shown in his 'Ode to a Nightingale': My heart aches, and...pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk. Other means of altering the senses, through the use of stimulants, hallucinogens, and inebriants will...

...five iambuses and thus of ten syllables. Poet John Keats's Ode to a Nightingale is an example: 'My heart/ aches and/ a drow/sy numb/ness pains My sense/ as though/ of hem/lock I/ had drunk' -ible For words ending in -ible (as distinct from those ending in -able) see -able. idiom Collectively,...

...sensibilities. Nor should we forget the sensibilities that may be reawakened. When John Keats wrote: My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk he had open before him Horace's fourteenth Epode: Why a soft numbness drenches all my inmost senses...

...out of their bodies: drugs and alcohol. He feels strange right away as he listens to the bird: "as if of hemlock I had drunk, / or emptied some dull opiate to the drains." He considers the use of alcohol to lift him up and out of his body in ecstasy—wine might help him...

...Keats and the Mirror of Art,12 Jones's John Keats's Dream of Truth" and Barnard's John Keats.14 1 My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock15 1 had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains16 One minute past,17 and Lethe-wards18...

...writing surely the greatest poem of all time, the "Ode to a Nightingale," began the magic invocation, My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk. And at the end of the poem we then read: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: —...

...rolling. Mountainous, all around Departing, departing, departing. (Blake, The Book of Urizen, 12-17) My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk (Keats, 'Ode to a Nightingale', 1-2) Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary highland lass! Reaping...

...at that face that she knew so well. Beyond a shadow of a doubt it was Rohan. An overdose they said. "..as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains...." "Oh no inspector, you must be mistaken, he was not like that," she protested, even as she began to...

...at that face that she knew so well. Beyond a shadow of a doubt it was Rohan. An overdose they said. "..as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains...." "Oh no inspector, you must be mistaken, he was not like that," she protested, even as she began to...

...Side of New York tonight. Rushed to the Roosevelt Hospital. Dead on arrival. An unspeakable tragedy." to a Nightingale," " 'My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense ..." Cosell first read the Keats poem as an English literature major at New York University. The ode...