 | John Keats - English poetry - 1863 - 370 pages
...arbour take A dewy flower, oft would that hand appear, And o'er my eyes the trembling moisture shake. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. MY heart aches, and a drowsy...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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 982 pages
...Again appears to be An unsubstantial, fairy place That is fit home for Thee ! W. Wordsworth CCXLIV ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE MY heart aches, and a drowsy...some dull opiate to 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,... | |
 | 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,...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, —... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
..."Miniver Cheevy," "Leda and the Swan," and "Ulysses." FORM : Italian sonnet rhyming abbaabbacdcdcd. Ode to a Nightingale My heart aches, and a drowsy...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 thine happiness,—... | |
 | Merriam-Webster, Inc - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 454 pages
...famous first stanza may have given the English-speaking world its lasting image of the Romantic poet: My 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 thine happiness,... | |
 | Mary Oliver - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 212 pages
...— Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings. My 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 thine happiness,... | |
 | Marina Yaguello - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 190 pages
...Keats's 'Ode to a Nightingale': My heart arhes, and a drowsy numbness ptans My sense, as though of hemhvk I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: Tis not through env8 of thy happy /ot, But being too happy in thine haptnness,... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 199 pages
...Drang with comedy. Keats shaves his head; Shelley frizzes out his hair; Byron submits to a bowl-cut. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Keats sighs, his head stuck in a cannon. Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons,... | |
 | Thomas McFarland - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 268 pages
...referred to vaguely, as being 'in some melodious plot I Of beechen green, and shadows numberless': My 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,... | |
 | J. Mann - Pharmacology - 2000 - 268 pages
...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 a drowsy...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... | |
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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... 
