 | David Grant - 1865 - 428 sivua
...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...it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, Whilst thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and... | |
 | Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 sivua
...for many a time" I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more...ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain— To thy high requiem become a sod. VII. Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry... | |
 | Penny readings - 1866 - 304 sivua
...for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath ; Now...ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry... | |
 | Judy Hall - 1998 - 338 sivua
...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...it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain."> In surrendering to death, Mac became free. In being free, he was in control of life perhaps... | |
 | Gerald Dworkin, R. G. Frey, Sissela Bok - 1998 - 156 sivua
...for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme. To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more...it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale" 12 David Hume, Essays Moral, Political, and Literary, vol.... | |
 | Andrew Motion - 1999 - 702 sivua
...soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever it seems rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain,...ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. As Keats contemplates quitting the world altogether, his... | |
 | Andrew Bennett - 1999 - 288 sivua
...asks Coleridge, 'where Genius ne'er in vain / Pour'd forth his lofty strain?' (p. xcii): 'Now more than ever seems it rich to die, / to cease upon the...pouring forth thy soul abroad / In such an ecstasy' cries Keats. And Coleridge's poem details the physical dissolution of Chatterton ('corse of livid hue',... | |
 | Timothy Patrick Jackson - 1999 - 268 sivua
...of the powerful connection between ecstasy and nonbeing, natural beauty and physical death: Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the...pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! But thoughts of human suffering- "hungry generations," "the sad heart of Ruth," and "faery lands forlorn"... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - 1999 - 199 sivua
...poems. Consider the speaker's musing about death in the sixth stanza of Ode to a Nightingale: Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the...pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! The richness of this thought is immediately nullified by the realism of mortal extinction: "Still wouldst... | |
 | Linda Underhill - 1999 - 168 sivua
...pharmaceutical companies. Perhaps John Keats was not exaggerating when he wrote of the nightingale: Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the...pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! IN THE HEART OF THE WILD : \~J Of course, songbirds have not evolved for our benefit only, much as... | |
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Darkling I listen; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While... 
