 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...forlorn. Forlorn ! the very word is like a bell, To toll me back from thee to my sole self ! Adieu ! the Fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to...meadows, over the still stream, Up the hillside ; and now 't is buried deep In the next valley-glades : Was it a vision or a waking dream ? Fled is that music,... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 860 pages
...forlorn. Forlorn ! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole se.f ! Adieu ! Bright herald of the eternal throne 1 hill-stream, Up the hillside ; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley's glades : Was it a vision... | |
 | Ellen Spolsky - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 262 pages
...awareness. The modularity hypothesis has, thus, accounted in cognitive terms for Keats's lament that the fancy cannot cheat so well as she is famed to do. Language cannot easily say everything that is seen or, apparently, everything that is felt or understood,... | |
 | John Keats - Poetry - 1994 - 554 pages
...bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self! Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is fam'd to do, deceiving elf. Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive...the hillside; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: - Do I wake or sleep? Ode on... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self! Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is fam'd to do, deceiving elf. Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive...valley-glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that musie; — Do I wake or sleep? 80 ODE ON MELANCHOLY No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist Wolf s-bane,... | |
 | John Keats, Robert Gittings - Literary Collections - 1995 - 324 pages
...thee to my sole self! Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is fam'd to do, deceiving elf. 75 Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the...valley-glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? 80 Fled is that music: — Do I wake or sleep? Ode on a Grecian Urn This ode was written in May 1819.... | |
 | William Fitzgerald - Literary Criticism - 2023 - 324 pages
...generations, as well as they are famed to do" (95). The quotation from Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale" ("The Fancy cannot cheat so well / As she is famed to do" ), reversing Keats's disillusionment with the potential of song to speak to a universal and transhistorical... | |
 | Nicholas Roe - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 344 pages
...forlorn as that in 'Robin Hood'; like that earlier lyric, Keats's ode bids farewell to romance as a 'deceiving elf: Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem...and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades . . . (75-8) interment; they remind of 'music fled' and the confused possibility (vision or dream?)... | |
 | George Hughes - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 274 pages
...is typical: Forlorn! The very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self! Adieu! The fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf ... (71-4) If Keats tells us that the rhyme came as naturally as leaves to a tree, presumably we have... | |
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Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self! Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. 
