 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 : Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy...  The Indicator - Page 345edited by - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...pa.st, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tie not through envy of thy happy lot But being too happy in thy happiness, That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees,...numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. 0 for a draught of vintage, that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of Flora... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...minute past, and Lethe-ward had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness,— That thou, light-winged Dryad of the...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... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - English poetry - 1851 - 398 pages
...Nightingale," flow from a far more profound fountain of inspiration. After addressing the bird as a " light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green and shadows numberless, Singing of summer in full-throated ease," he adds, somewhat fantastically, it must be owned, at first—... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...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 dryad of the...numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. 0 for a draught of vintage , that hath been Cool'da long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of Flora... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1852 - 680 pages
...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 Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of bnechen green, and shadows numberless, Singcst of summer in full-throated case. O for a draught of... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...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 Dryad of the...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... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...Lethe-wards had sunk ; Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too nappy in thy happmess, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some...numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. Here is a rich array of ideas clothed in the choicest words. But mark the wonderful voluptuousness... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...not 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...numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. O, for a draught of vintage ! that hath been Cooled a long ago in the deep delvvd earth, Tasting of... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - English poetry - 1853 - 548 pages
...thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — That tiiou, light-winged Dryad of the tree» In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless Singest of summer in full-throated i 2. 0 for a draught of vintage, tfcat hath been Cool'da long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting... | |
 | 1854 - 414 pages
...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 Dryad of the...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... | |
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