 | Lawrence M. Zbikowski, Lawrence Michael Zbikowski - 2005 - 386 pages
..."Maxwell seems a bit down today." Others summon a rich imagistic world, such as that of John Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale": My heart aches, and a drowsy...drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk. Here the descent to the mythical river gives a physical correlate to the narcotic state of the narrator:... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 544 pages
...thought! Gives even affliction a grace, And reconciles man to his lot. WILLIAM COWPER ENGLISH (1731-1800) 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 green,... | |
 | J. S. Borthwick - 2004 - 392 pages
...gown, pulled the pillow under her neck and fixed Clare Mitchner with a steely eye and intoned: "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk. " "Aunt Julia," exclaimed Sarah admiringly, "why, that's Keats." "I am not," said Julia complacently,... | |
 | Deborah Forbes, Independent Scholar Deborah Forbes - 2004 - 260 pages
...introduced to a speaker whose equivocal state of consciousness at first appears to have no cause: My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk.18 Keats here depicts a characteristic mood, balanced precariously on the boundary between consciousness... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 pages
...sayst, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." Ode to a Nightingale My heart aches, and a drowsy...happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, 230 JOHN KEATS II O for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep-delved earth,... | |
 | 2006 - 388 pages
...Bonnecase a bien voulu y voir un exemple de mon « souci constant du rendu des sonorités »48 : My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...the drains One minute past, and Lethewards had sunk. Mon cœur souffre, et mes sens à une somnolence Succombent, comme si j'avais bu la ciguë. Ou vidé... | |
 | Maryse Conde - 2007 - 320 pages
...He had given him novels and then poetry to read. Bishupal had adored Keats and the odes, especially "Ode to a Nightingale." My heart aches and a drowsy...drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains. Not surprising. It's the one everyone likes! As for Roselie, she was incapable of giving an opinion... | |
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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... 
