 Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy!  Spirit of the English Magazines - Page 4411821Full view - About this book
 | James Joyce - Journalism - 2000 - 420 pages
...(Ruth 1: 19-20). 35. Giacomo, Count Leopardi (1798-1837), Italian poet and philosopher. 36. John Keats, 'for many a time | I have been half in love with easeful Death', 'Ode to a Nightingale' (1819). 37. In Islam, the angel of death, from which Mangan's poem 'The Angel... | |
 | Margaret Laurence - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 340 pages
...stanza of Keats's melancholy "Ode to a Nightingale" (1820): "Darkling I listen; and for many a time / 1 have been half in love with easeful Death, / Called...mused rhyme / To take into the air my quiet breath." Page 67, 3rd paragraph, 4th line: "Kingsley Amis" (192.2-) English novelist and poet whose works include... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2002 - 396 pages
...Keats's 'Fame'. The potential sweetness of death is given lovely expression in the Ode to a Nightingale : Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever... | |
 | Cecily Von Ziegesar - Children - 2003 - 228 pages
...going on to the next question, Dan reread some lines from "Ode to a Nightingale" on his exam sheet. Darkling I listen; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death There was a perfect beginning to a poem for Vanessa. She was his darkling. And it was true, Dan was... | |
 | Klaus Martens, Paul Duncan Morris, Arlette Warken - American poetry - 2003 - 166 pages
...is absence, desolation, and mortality. Unhearing, as the "Ode to a Nightingale" declares, is death: Darkling I listen: and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever... | |
 | Leonora Leet - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2003 - 388 pages
...of individual consciousness as that expressed by Keats, when transported by the nightingale's song: Darkling I listen; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, Still wouldst thou... | |
 | David M. Delo, Kingfisher Books - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 212 pages
...life will have meaning. "... and for many a time 1 have been half in love with easeful Death, call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme to take into the air my quiet breath . . ." Keats, Ode To a Nightingale On Being Suicidal Late 1990s: Today life has no meaning. I spend... | |
 | John R. Strachan - 2003 - 218 pages
...coming musk-rose,39 full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. 50 6 Darkling40 1 listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever... | |
 | Rochelle Almeida - Fiction - 2004 - 248 pages
...an ecstacy! ("Ode to a Nightingale," lines 55-58) Earlier, in the same ode, Keats had admitted: ... for many a time I have been half in love with easeful...Death, Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme . . . (lines 5 1-54) These lines bear witness to Keats's own severe depression, based upon a loss so... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - Poetry - 2007 - 778 pages
...eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever... | |
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