 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...the merry songster in the garden below. It opens with a painful description of his own sad state. MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains I One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk ; Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - English poetry - 1853 - 548 pages
...would that hand appear, And o'er my eyes the trembling moisture «hake ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. 1. MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiato to the drains One minute post, and Lethe-wards had sunk Tie not through envy of thy happy lot,... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 592 pages
...music left there Was only of the Poet's song, and not the Nightingale's. EUZABBTH BABBETT BBOWNING. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. My heart aches, and a drowsy...emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute passed, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1854 - 482 pages
...SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDUK. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. My heart nches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, ns though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-ward sunk : "Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, Than... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 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...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,... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 510 pages
...motion tune his wanton song, Like tipsy joy that reels with tossing head. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDOE. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. My heart aches, and a drowsy...some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-ward sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, Than... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 478 pages
...motion tune his wanton song, Like tipsy joy that reels with tossing head. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDOE. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, ns though of hemlock I hud drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-ward... | |
 | 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,... | |
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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... 
