 | 1864 - 148 pages
...rivers ; and the eve Shall close o'er the brown woods as it was wont. IDLE MAN. THE NIGHTINGALE. MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1857 - 436 pages
...leaves which are her winding-sheet. -% - • • . v: v ,.' SgppppEE KEATS. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1857 - 426 pages
...leaves which iri-e her winding-sheet. 132 A3 I ':m:lJgg KEATS. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. MY heart nches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of...through envy of thy "happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green,... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...whistles from a garden croft, And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...There, in his dark, carved, oaken chair, old Rudiger sat — dead ! ALBEBT G. GREENE. (®b* to a MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness — That thou, light-winged'Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 578 pages
...of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe- ward had sunk : "Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,...numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. O for a draught of vintage that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of Flora... | |
 | David Grant - 1865 - 428 pages
...thou the ear might glad the heart, And scatter music from the sky ! BARTON. . - o THE NIGHTINGALE. heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, Oh, for a draught of vintage ! that... | |
 | Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 pages
...what he fair hath made; All other fair, like flowers untimely fade. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE: Spenser. MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness,— That thou, light-wing'd Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green,... | |
 | Penny readings - 1866 - 304 pages
...Hood" is a fine lilt, as good as any of the many ballads that have been written on the subject.] MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green,... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 pages
...seern'd listening to the Earth, His ancient mother, for some comfort yet. FROM "ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE." MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness,— That thou, light-winged dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green,... | |
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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 : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness,... 
