 | Helmut Krasser, Ernst A. Schmidt - 1996 - 500 pages
...the most exquisitely romantic of his odes the Ode to a Nightingale. That languorous poem opens: My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk ... Compare the opening of the 14th Epode: Mollis inertia cur tantam diffudcrit imis oblivionem sensibus,... | |
 | Eric Partridge - 1997 - 406 pages
...odes. Take the first stanza of To a Nightingale, which stanza it is necessary to quote in full: My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...lot, But being too happy in thy happiness That thou, light- winged dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot 241 POETS' LICENCE Of beechen green and shadows... | |
 | Louise Cripps Samoiloff - 1997 - 244 pages
...over her shoulder and without selfconsciousness began reciting in his full, rich, accented voice: My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains, My sense,...drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk. The weariness, the fever and the fret. Weariness and fret. Her weariness and fret had been of such... | |
 | Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 pages
...precedent for elaborate and irregular— but repeated— stanzas like those in the odes of Keats: 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—... | |
 | William Harmon - 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...through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness,— That thou, light- winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen... | |
 | Merriam-Webster, Inc - 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,...through envy of thy happy lot. But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen... | |
 | Mary Oliver - 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,...through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen... | |
 | Thomas McFarland, Murray Professor of English Literature Emeritus Thomas McFarland - 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,...shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.73 71 Keats, Poems, 369: 'Ode to a Nightingale', lines l-1o. The sensuousness of the first four... | |
 | Frances Mayes - 2001 - 548 pages
...the poet attain the "full-throated ease" of the bird? ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE (John Keats, 1795-1821) My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...But being too happy in thy happiness, — That thou, light winged Dryad2 of the trees, ' Lethe-wards: towards Lethe, river in Hades whose water induces... | |
 | Alan Richardson - 2001 - 243 pages
...the great odes. The best known is the passage that sets the strangely pained yet detached tone of the "Ode to a Nightingale": My heart aches, and a drowsy...drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk. This passage has been related to an anecdote in one of Cooper's lectures, concerning an "extraordinary... | |
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Ode to a Nightingale 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... 
