 | 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... | |
 | Edith Newman Devlin - 2000 - 288 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | Peter J. Kitson - 2001 - 264 pages
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 | Jay Parini - 2002 - 550 pages
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 | John Keats - 2001 - 667 pages
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 | Michel Midan - 2002 - 313 pages
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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... 
