 | George William Curtis - Atlantic States - 1852 - 214 pages
...plunge, that it woos and woos you to lay your head upon its breast and slide into dreamless sleep. " Darkling I listen ; and, for many a time, I have been half in love with easeful death — Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme To take into the air my quiet breath : Now more than... | |
 | William Mountford - Death - 1852 - 542 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 in love with easeful Death, — Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath: Now more than... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...and the fruit-tree wild : White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine ; Fast-fading violets cover'd up in leaves; And Mid-May's eldest child, The coming...wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. sad youthfnl fancies had often wished to die, when death seemed soroe•,hin; impossible, now when... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...and the fruit-tree wild : White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine ; Fast fading violets covered up in leaves ; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming...musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies 011 summer eves. Darkling I listen ; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful death,... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - English poetry - 1853 - 548 pages
...eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eve«. Darkling I listen ; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Caird him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath ; Now more than ever... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...and the fruit tree wild ; White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine ; Fast-fading violets covered up in leaves ; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunts of flies on summer eyes, Darkling I listen ; and for many a time I have heen half in love with... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 584 pages
...and the fruit-tree wild ; White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine ; Fast-fading violets cover'd up in leaves ; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming...have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd bun soft names in many a muted rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath ; Now more than ever seems... | |
 | 1854 - 400 pages
...etrlantine ; Fast-fading violets covered up in leaves ; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk -rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on...listen ; and, for many a time I have been half in love witl, easeful death, Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1868 - 322 pages
...quotation or two from our own poets. In his Ode to a Nightingale, Keats has the following stanza : — " Darkling, I listen ; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death; Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath ; Now more than ever... | |
 | 1854 - 414 pages
...fruit-tree wild ; White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine ; Fast-fading violets covered up in loaves ; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine. The murmurous haunt of flies 0n summer eves. Darkling I listen ; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful death,... | |
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I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild... 
