 | Moxon Edward and co - 200 pages
...Darkling I listen ; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet...thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ectasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. Thou... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1867 - 360 pages
...of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. Darkling I listen ; and for many a time To take into the air my quiet breath ; Now more than...pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, In such an... | |
 | Irving Singer - Philosophy - 2001 - 252 pages
...Keats reports that being happy in the bird's expression of its own happiness, he feels that "Now more than ever seems it rich to die, / To cease upon the...pouring forth thy soul abroad / In such an ecstasy!" This idea of death as an apogee of total consummation in the experience that precedes it also appears... | |
 | Margaret Laurence - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 340 pages
...listen; and for many a time / 1 have been half in love with easeful Death, / Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme / To take into the air my quiet breath." Page 67, 3rd paragraph, 4th line: "Kingsley Amis" (192.2-) English novelist and poet whose works include... | |
 | Anne Ferry - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 318 pages
..."What thou art we know not." In the last poem, Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale," the poet, listening "While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad /In such an ecstasy!," thinks of his own mortality, and that reflection leads him to accuse the "immortal Bird" as a "deceiving... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2002 - 396 pages
...Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet...pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. "There death is blended... | |
 | Klaus Martens, Paul Duncan Morris, Arlette Warken - American poetry - 2003 - 166 pages
...Darkling I listen: and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet...pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain To thy high requiem become a sod. (208) But while in the... | |
 | John R. Strachan - 2003 - 218 pages
...Darkling40 1 listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet...pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod.41 60 31 Invisible.... | |
 | Caroline Upcher - Fiction - 2003 - 306 pages
..."Darkling I listen; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet...it rich to die, To cease upon the Midnight with no pain . . ." On and on he went, his voice far too dramatic for the delicacy of the poem. He waved his... | |
 | Marcia Willett - Fiction - 2002 - 442 pages
...forest dim . . . Away! away! for I will fly to thee ... on the viewless wings of Poesy . . . Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the...pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! . . . Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! . . .' Odd that the girl's bright, young, eager... | |
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Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While... 
