 | Charles Hartley - 1872 - 372 pages
...thicket, 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... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1872 - 420 pages
...pastoral eglantine; Fast-fading violets, covered up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child, The evening musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt...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... | |
 | Thomas McFarland - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 268 pages
...thicket, 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...dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.83 Prefigured by such floral richness and profusion, the death invoked by the next stanza can... | |
 | Aldous Huxley, David Bradshaw, James Sexton - Drama - 2000 - 140 pages
...BARMBY are sitting in front of the fire. BARMBY holds a book in his band and is reading aloud. BARMBY: 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... | |
 | Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell - History - 2000 - 532 pages
...to honor the two poets (43). 29. This is reminiscent of Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale," lines 51-52: "Darkling I listen; and, for many a time, / I have been half in love with easeful Death." The Protestant Cemetery was "a most romantic setting of which Shelley wrote 'it might make one in love... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Gregory Brown - Fiction - 2001 - 228 pages
...of Keats and found there again and again the language of my grief, the very words I could not speak. Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been...mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath I was not a fool; my despair was not blind. I understood that my grief had become an affliction, fully... | |
 | Frances Mayes - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 548 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Susan J. Wolfson - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 324 pages
...thicket, 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. (Ode to a Nightingale 41-50) I know a banke where the wilde thyme blowes, Where Oxslips and the nodding... | |
 | Norman Finkelstein - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 210 pages
...but Keats, his follower, listening to the Nightingale, falls entirely under death's voluptuous spell: 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... | |
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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... 
