 | Australian periodicals - 1864 - 742 pages
...personal existence of the poet than where he throws himself rather into an imaginary world : — My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...opiate to the drains, One minute past and Lethewards bad sunk : Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — That them... | |
 | David Grant - English poetry - 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... | |
 | Merriam-Webster, Inc - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 454 pages
...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,...being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest... | |
 | Marina Yaguello - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 190 pages
...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...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 Dryad of the... | |
 | James Chandler - History - 1999 - 616 pages
...with the crucial syntactical confusion of the speaker and the nightingale in Keats's next great Ode ("Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, / But being too happy in thine happiness, / That thon . . . "), the indicators of reference here are hard to make out. "Fluttering," for example, itself... | |
 | Reto Luzius Fetz, Roland Hagenbüchle, Peter Schulz - History - 1998 - 1414 pages
...798/799), man darf wohl hinzufügen: reicher, weil „more self-destroying".19 Es beginnt mit Empathie („Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, / But being too happy in thine happiness"), doch zielt auf Auflösung des Subjekts: Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 199 pages
...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 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 268 pages
...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,...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,... | |
 | J. Mann - Pharmacology - 2000 - 268 pages
...Lord was kindled against 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...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... | |
 | Pia-Elisabeth Leuschner - Comparative literature - 2000 - 286 pages
...623ff. 6?] Keats: „Darkling I listen [...]" („Ode to the Nightingale" (Anm. 667) v. 5l). Ebd.. „Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, / But being too happy in thine happyness [...]" Ebd.: „The weariness, the fever and the fret / Here, where men sit and groan / Where... | |
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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... 
