 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...  The Bibelot - Page 95edited by - 1907Full view - About this book
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1863 - 564 pages
...Darkling I listen, and, for many a time, 1 have been half in love with easeful Death,1 Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air...breath ; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To seize upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an eestasy... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Outdoor life - 1865 - 120 pages
...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...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 generations... | |
 | Margaret Laurence - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 340 pages
..."Darkling I listen; and for many a time / 1 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." Page 67, 3rd paragraph, 4th line: "Kingsley Amis" (192.2-) English novelist and poet whose works include... | |
 | Anne Ferry - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 318 pages
..."What thou art we know not." In the last poem, Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale," the poet, listening "While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad /In such an ecstasy!," thinks of his own mortality, and that reflection leads him to accuse the "immortal Bird" as a "deceiving... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2002 - 396 pages
...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...ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. "There death is blended not with love, but bird-music. 'Birds'... | |
 | Klaus Martens, Paul Duncan Morris, Arlette Warken - American poetry - 2003 - 166 pages
...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...ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain To thy high requiem become a sod. (208) But while in the thrall of the nightingale's song, the... | |
 | John R. Strachan - 2003 - 218 pages
...Darkling40 1 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...ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod.41 60 31 Invisible. 32 By chance. 33 Fairies. 34 Flourishing.... | |
 | Caroline Upcher - Fiction - 2003 - 306 pages
..."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...it rich to die, To cease upon the Midnight with no pain . . ." On and on he went, his voice far too dramatic for the delicacy of the poem. He waved his... | |
 | Richard Hayman - History - 2003 - 300 pages
...confesses himself in such a heightened poetical state as 'half in love with easeful death': Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the...pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! " Keats sought in trees and birds symbols that could help communicate his personal ideas and feelings.... | |
 | Bernd Fischer - History - 2003 - 276 pages
...Thematic and Dramatic Configurations of the Theme of Death in Kleist's Works Hilda M. Brown Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the...pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! (Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale") RIPENESS AND DEATH are brought into a striking new relationship in... | |
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