 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1868 - 310 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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1868 - 328 pages
...mid-May's eldest child, The coming mnsk-rose, fnll of dewy wine, The mnrmnrons hannt of flies on snmmer eves. Darkling I listen ; and, for many a time, I have been half in love with easefnl Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mnsed rhyme, To take into the air my qniet breath :... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1868 - 360 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 hi love with easeful Death; Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1869 - 810 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...dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer even. Darkling I listen ; and for ninny a time 1 have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English poetry - 1870 - 466 pages
...and the fruit-tree wild ; 45 White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine ; Fast-fading violets covered up in leaves ; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming...wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. 50 Darkling I listen; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft... | |
 | 1870 - 464 pages
...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 on summer eves. 50 Darkling I listen; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...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 on summer eves. ] )arkling I listen ; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 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...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... | |
 | John Keats, James Russell Lowell, Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton (baron).) - Poetry - 1871 - 342 pages
...the fruit-tree wild: While" hawthorn, and the pastoral egl an fine ; Fast-fading violets cover'd ujj> in leaves ; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming...dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer pves. Darkling I listen ; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Deajh, CalPd him... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...; And mid- May's oldest child, The coming nmsk-rose, full of dewy wine, The mnnuurous haunt of bees From billow Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath ; Kow, more than... | |
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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... 
