 | 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... | |
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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... 
