 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
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, Darkling I listen ; and, fyr 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 thnn ever... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...mid-May's eldest child The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine. The murmurous haunt of bees on summer eves. Darkling I listen ; and for many a time I have been...with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a musfed rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath ; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1856 - 512 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... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. VI. Darkling I listen ; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful death, CalPd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath ; Now more than ever... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1856 - 512 pages
...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 ; Xow more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - American poetry - 1857 - 436 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... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 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... | |
 | William Mountford - Christian life - 1858 - 536 pages
...die ; it is what he felt while he was listening to the nightingale once, and I suppose in the dark. Darkling I listen ; and for many a time I have been half i» love with easeful Death, — Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air... | |
 | William Allingham - English poetry - 1860 - 316 pages
...eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. VI. 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1883 - 826 pages
...which take a deeper pathos when we remember that the writer was then actually on the eve of 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, Still would'st tliou sing, and I have ears ia vair. —... | |
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