 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...out a shout most heaven -rend ing, Conjure thee to receive our humble Pœan, Upon thy Mount Lyccan ! he : "Tis not through envy of thy happy lot But being too happy in thy happiness, That thou, light-winged... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...out a shout most heaven-rending, Conjure thee to receive our humble Ptean, Upon thy Mount Lycean ! hould fate command me to the farthest verge Of the...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... | |
 | 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 - 1845 - 372 pages
...And all along a dismal rack of clouds, Upon the boundaries of day and night, He stretch'd himself,»" grief and radiance faint. OTHER TITANS FALLEN. Scarce...happiness,— That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, 0 for a draught of vintage, that hath been Cool'da long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of Flora... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 372 pages
...the time ; And all along a dismal rack of clouds, Upon the boundaries of day and night, He stretch 'd himself, in grief and radiance faint. OTHER TITANS...drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I bad drunk. Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Letbe-wards had sunk. 'Tis... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1846 - 574 pages
...perusal of its mellifluous numbers. Take the following specimen, all we can afford to present : — ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. ' My heart aches, and a drowsy...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,... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...life, when the joyous notes of the Nightingale fall upon his ear. He thus addresses it : — " 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy...happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trces, In some melodious plot Of bcechen grove and shadows numberless Singest of summer in full-throated... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 402 pages
...and their chancel vault, The heaven itself, is blinded throughout night. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE.18 My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, O for a draught of vintage, that hath been Cool'da long age in the deep. delved earth, Tasting of Flora... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...den, Arc things to brood on with more ardency Than the death-day of empires. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. Mr heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...is not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too hoppy in thy happiness, — That thou, light-winged dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen... | |
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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... 
