 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1847 - 606 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,... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1847 - 558 pages
...eyes the trembling mouture shake ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. 1. Mr heart aches, and a drowsy numbness paint My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied...the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk Т is not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — • That thou, light-winged... | |
 | George Croly - 1849 - 416 pages
...soft The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft ; And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. TO THE NIGHTINGALE. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness...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 Ofbeechen green,... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...TO THE NIGHTINGALE. M v heart aclies, and a drowsy numbness paint My sense, as though of hemlock f had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains...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 bcechen... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 762 pages
...humble Pœan, Upon thy Mount Lycean ! Ode to a Nightingale, My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pain« he »teed to battle : 'Tie not through envy of thy happy lot But being too happy in thy happiness, That thou, light-winged... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1852 - 678 pages
...touching in a most affecting manner on his own sad state. It is worthy of being given entire — ' My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tia not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness — That thou, light-winged... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1853 - 378 pages
...him. No one since Spenser has possessed a more graphic pen. His processions not only live, they move. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. My heart aches, and a drowsy...numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. Oh for a draught of vintage, that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...children's dower, — Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower ! BOBEKT BROWKIKO. JOHN LYLY. 79 ' a 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 560 pages
...souls of men Come back, when night her folding veil hath spread, The long remembered dead! HEMANS. THE NIGHTINGALE. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness...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,... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...the merry songster in the garden below. It opens with a painful description of his own sad state. MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains I One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk ; Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too... | |
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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... 
