 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...tears amid the alien corn ; The same that ofttimes hath Charmed magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. Forlorn...like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self I Adieu ! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. Up the hillside ; and... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 434 pages
...tears amid the alien corn ; The same that ofttimes hath Charmed magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. Forlorn...like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self I Adieu ! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. Adieu ! adieu ! thy... | |
 | John Keats - English poetry - 1899 - 520 pages
...hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lauds forlorn. 70 VIII Forlorn ! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from tbee to my sole self ! Adieu I the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf.... | |
 | John Keats - 1921 - 260 pages
...oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam. Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. 8. Forlorn ! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self I 7. In the last line of this stanza the word ' fairy ' instead of ' faery ' stands in the Dilke and... | |
 | John B. Bremner - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1980 - 424 pages
...out foreword or forward. FORGO, see FOREGO / FORGO FORLORN Keats, in "Ode to a Nightingale," sighed: "Forlorn! The very word is like a bell! / To toll me back from thee to my sole self!" Forlorn has been described as the loneliest word in the language and, because of its sound, one of... | |
 | John Barnard - Literary Collections - 1987 - 192 pages
...forlorn' merely as a weakened poeticism for 'desolate', begins the final movement with substantial irony Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self! (lines 71-2) Here it has taken on the sense of 'Forsaken by (a person); bereft, destitute, or stripped... | |
 | Lowry Nelson - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 333 pages
...two "realities," that it is the mystical experience which is being lost as the bird's song recedes. Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self! There is no other course than for the poet to return from being "already with" the bird to his "sole... | |
 | Edward T. Cone - Music - 1989 - 348 pages
...wonders whether they constitute one 6. In this connection, the major chord always reminds me of Keats's "Forlorn! the very word is like a bell / To toll me back from thee to my sole self!" But the return to reality in "Ode to a Nightingale" is not a welcome one. 7. Some of the tenor line... | |
 | Marjorie Perloff - Literary Criticism & Collections - 1990 - 384 pages
..."Ode to a Nightingale." Beckett's sentence is an elaborate spoof on the opening of the last stanza: "Forlorn! the very word is like a bell / To toll me back from thee to my sole self!" The "perfect dark" alludes to the "embalmed darkness" of stanza 5: "darling" is a play on "Darkling... | |
 | Pamela Schirmeister - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 254 pages
...applies to the land of faery reminds Keats of his own distance and difference from that limitless world: "Forlorn, the very word is like a bell / To toll me back from thee to my sole self."'1 This sense too is of the nightingale's song. And also of James's. Since sight rather than... | |
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Forlorn ! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self ! J Adieu ! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. 
