 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...every thing that is elevating, cheering, and heavenly.] EXTRACTS FROM KEATS. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...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, — That thou, light-winged... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...paradise have lent Their plumage to his wings ? JOHN KEATS. 1796-1821. ODB TO A XIGIITIXi; VLE. 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 thy happiness,... | |
 | American poetry - 1862 - 512 pages
...brood on with more ardency Than the death-day of empires. Awn i»rfim, -«. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: "Pis not through pnvy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — That thou, light-winged... | |
 | Readings - English poetry - 1843 - 466 pages
...regret the loss of what he mighthave done, than to admire what we possess. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness,— In some melodious... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...heaven-rending, Conjure thee to receive our humble Ptean, Upon thy Mount Lycean ! Ode to a Nightingale. My the farthest verge Of the green earth, to distant...Indian mountains, or his setting beam Flames on : 'Tis not through envy of thy Imppy lot But being too happy in thy happiness, That thou, light-winged"... | |
 | Literature - 1895 - 862 pages
...desire." Some mood akin to this seems to steal over the poet as he opens the ode with the liues : — My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense...the drains One minute past, and Lethewards had sunk. But note, it is only " Lethewards," only to the brink of Lethe, the river of oblivion, that the poet... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...-rend ing, Conjure thee to receive our humble Pœan, Upon thy Mount Lyccan ! Ode to a Nightingale. My 4. : "Tis not through envy of thy happy lot But being too happy in thy happiness, That thou, light-winged... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 484 pages
...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,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...JVovember, and their chancel vault, The heaven itself, is blinded throughout night ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE." My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beeches green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. O for a draught of... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...and their chancel vault, The heaven itself, is blinded throughout night. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE.'* My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beeches green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. O for a draught of... | |
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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... 
