 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: "Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness,...  The Book of Gems: Wordsworth to Bayly - Page 120edited by - 1838Full view - About this book
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1862 - 578 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 being too happy in thine happiness,... | |
 | John Keats - English poetry - 1863 - 370 pages
...oft would that hand appear, And o'er my eyes the trembling moisture shake. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...But being too happy in thy happiness, — That thou, light- winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 438 pages
...be An unsubstantial, fairy place That is fit home for Thee ! W. Wordfwtnth ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...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, — That thou, light-winged... | |
 | John Keats - English poetry - 1863 - 496 pages
...oft would that hand appear, And o'er my eyes the trembling moisture shake. 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 envy of thy happy lot, ; But being too happy in thy happiness, — That thou, light-winged... | |
 | 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,...some 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,... | |
 | Australian periodicals - 1864 - 742 pages
...personal existence of the poet than where he throws himself rather into an imaginary world : — My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...opiate to the drains, One minute past and Lethewards bad sunk : Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — That them... | |
 | David Grant - English poetry - 1865 - 428 pages
...thou the ear might glad the heart, And scatter music from the sky ! BARTON. . - o THE NIGHTINGALE. heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, Oh, for a draught of vintage ! that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep delved earth, Tasting of... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Outdoor life - 1865 - 116 pages
...Thou that makest a day of night, Goddess excellently bright ! Ben Jonson. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. 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,... | |
 | Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 pages
...what he fair hath made; All other fair, like flowers untimely fade. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE: Spenser. MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...But being too happy in thy happiness,— That thou, light-wing'd Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest... | |
 | Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 pages
...his silver hair, And be like him, and he will then love me. W. Blake. CVIII. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. Y 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,... | |
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