 Darkling I listen; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath ; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While...  The Book of Georgian Verse - Page 1083edited by - 1909 - 1313 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Wesley Hales - Authors, English - 1884 - 564 pages
...thinking particularly of the Ode to the Nightingale: "Darkling I listen; and for many a time Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the...ears in vain— To thy high requiem become a sod." 27. Comp. Rom. and Jul. V. in. 101—5, also Alastor, of the departed Poet: "Silence, too enamoured... | |
 | English poetry - 1890 - 302 pages
...the dark her silver [Swinbttrne. The Garden of mantle threw.' Proserpine^ [Paradise Lost, IV, 605-8.] Fast-fading violets cover'd up in leaves; And mid-May's...ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. Darkling. In the dark. Compare — 'As the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and, in shadiest covert hid,... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - Readers - 1890 - 516 pages
...eves.' Darkling " I listen, and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into...night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: i Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth," when, sick for home,... | |
 | English poetry - 1890 - 296 pages
...eves. Darkling I listen ; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into...down ; The voice I hear this passing night was heard Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1890 - 976 pages
...summer eves. Darkling I listen ; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into...death, immortal bird ! No hungry generations tread thec down ; The voice I hear this passing night wsis heard In ancient days by emperor and clown. Perhaps... | |
 | John Keats - 1891 - 236 pages
...eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves 6. Darkling I listen ; and, for many a time I have been...ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. 7Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 576 pages
...eves. " Darkling I listen ; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into...ears in vain, — To thy high requiem become a sod," — with the conclusion of the ode " To a Skylark": — " Yet if we could scorn " Better than all measures... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - Authors, English - 1892 - 480 pages
...radically cognate with candle. 1 8. Perhaps he is thinking particularly of the Ode to the Nightingale ; "Darkling I listen; and for many a time I have been...thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high reqt'iem become a sod." 27. Coinp. Rom. and Jul. V. iii. 101 — 5, also Alastor, of the departed Poet:... | |
 | James Baldwin - English poetry - 1892 - 316 pages
...eves. VI. Darkling7 I listen ; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into...sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem 8 become a sod. VII. Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry generations tread thee... | |
 | Oswald Crawfurd - 1896 - 494 pages
...grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild ; White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine ; Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves ; And mid-May's eldest...ears in vain— To thy high requiem become a sod. The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown : Perhaps the self-same... | |
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