 | Anna Kirwan - Juvenile Fiction - 2001 - 436 pages
...thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charm 'd magic... | |
 | Richard Yates - Fiction - 2002 - 356 pages
...there was no pleasure in it. All she could think of was another poem Willard Slade had liked: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn . . . Well, she was sick for home, all right;... | |
 | Larry Sider, Jerry Sider, Diane Freeman - Performing Arts - 2003 - 260 pages
...Nightingale': The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements,... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - Poetry - 2007 - 778 pages
...voice I hear this passing night was heard CONDITION In ancient days by emperor and clown: 3 " Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements,... | |
 | Aharon Lichtenstein - Religion - 2003 - 438 pages
...incomplete. However, the famous description of Keats, who ruminates that the nightingales is "Perhaps the self-same song that found a path / Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick, for home, / She stood in tears amid the alien corn" (Ode to a Nightingale, w, 65-67) is purely... | |
 | Brian Keeble - Art - 2005 - 302 pages
...remain true: The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown, Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charmed magic casements... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the selfsame song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charmed magic casements,... | |
 | Cullen Schippe, Chuck Stetson - Bible - 2006 - 400 pages
...thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, In Rembrandt's depiction of Esther's banquet, the queen's goodness is illuminated by... | |
 | Allan Wolf - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2006 - 124 pages
...thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown; Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements,... | |
 | Nancy Bogen - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 426 pages
...thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements,... | |
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Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick... 
