 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 oldal
...If winter comes, can spring be far behind? 70 Percy Bysshe Shelley, CCXXII ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, 5 But being too happy in thy happiness, — That thou, light-winged... | |
 | Alfred Elliott - 1868 - 358 oldal
...marvellous splendour, from which we are unable to resist the temptation of extracting a passage :— "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But heing too happy in thy happiness, That thou, light-winged... | |
 | Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 oldal
...— 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,...drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light-winged... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 oldal
...and the Swan," and "Ulysses." FORM : Italian sonnet rhyming abbaabbacdcdcd. Ode to a Nightingale My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness,— That thou, light-... | |
 | Merriam-Webster, Inc - 1998 - 454 oldal
...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,...drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot. But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light... | |
 | Marina Yaguello - 1998 - 190 oldal
...Keats's 'Ode to a Nightingale': My heart arhes, and a drowsy numbness ptans My sense, as though of hemhvk I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: Tis not through env8 of thy happy /ot, But being too happy in thine haptnness, That thou, light-winged... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - 1999 - 199 oldal
...Drang with comedy. Keats shaves his head; Shelley frizzes out his hair; Byron submits to a bowl-cut. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Keats sighs, his head stuck in a cannon. Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons,... | |
 | Thomas McFarland - 2000 - 268 oldal
...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,...drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — That thou, light-winged... | |
 | J. Mann - 2000 - 268 oldal
...the people. Keats was also aware of the effects of hemlock as shown in his 'Ode to a Nightingale': My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk. Other means of altering the senses, through the use of stimulants, hallucinogens, and inebriants will... | |
 | Alan Richardson - 2001 - 270 oldal
...known is the passage that sets the strangely pained yet detached tone of the "Ode to a Nightingale": My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...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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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... 
