But to her heart, her heart was voluble, Paining with eloquence her balmy side; As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell. The American Whig Review - Page 2201851Full view - About this book
| Alexander Bain - English language - 1890 - 376 pages
...proof. Again — i) But to her heart, her heart was voluble, Paining with eloquence her balmy side ; As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her...throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell. The whole conception of the last two lines is unnatural and overstrained, and fails therefore to elevate... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1890 - 458 pages
...syllable, or, woe betide ! But to her heart, her heart was voluble, Paining with eloquence her balmy side; As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her...throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell. A casement high and triple-arched there was, All garlanded with carven imageries Of fruits, and flowers,... | |
| John Keats - 1891 - 236 pages
...or, woe betide ! Hut to he.' heart, her heart was voluble, Paining with eloquence her balmy side ; As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her...throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell XXIV. A casement high and triple-arch'd there was, All garlanded with carven imag'ries Of fruits, and... | |
| Abby Sage Richardson - English literature - 1892 - 452 pages
...syllable or woe betide; But to her heart her heart was voluble, Paining with eloquence her balmy side, As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her...throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell. " A casement high and triple-arched there was, All garlanded with carven imageries Of fruits and flowers... | |
| Louis Du Pont Syle - English poetry - 1894 - 496 pages
...or, woe betide ! But to her heart, her heart was voluble, Paining with eloquence her balmy side; 205 As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her...throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell. A casement high and triple-arch'd there was, All garlanded with carven imageries Of fruits, and flowers,... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - English Literature - 1894 - 342 pages
...syllable, or, woe betide 1 But to her heart her heart was voluble, Paining with eloquence her balmy side; As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her...throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled in her dell. A casement high and triple-arched there was, All garlanded with carven imageries Of fruits and flowers... | |
| Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1895 - 452 pages
...a cormorant." 2 "* But to her heart, her heart was voluble, Paining with eloquence her balmy side; As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her...throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell."' " Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire." 4 In each of these examples,... | |
| John Keats - 1896 - 348 pages
...or, woe betide ! But to her heart, her heart was voluble, Paining with eloquence her balmy side ; 205 As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her...throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell. A casement high and triple-arched there was, All garlanded with carven imag'ries Of fruits, and flowers,... | |
| John Keats - Poetry - 1896 - 350 pages
...or, woe betide ! But to her heart, her heart was voluble, Paining with eloquence her balmy side ; 205 As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her...throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell. A casement high and triple-arched there was, All garlanded with carven imag'ries Of fruits, and flowers,... | |
| John Keats - Poetry - 1896 - 338 pages
...or, woe betide ! But to her heart, her heart was voluble, Paining with eloquence her balmy side ; 205 As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her...throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell. A casement high and triple-arched there was, All garlanded with carven imag'ries Of fruits, and flowers,... | |
| |