...in Johnson's ' Vanity of Human Wishes," " Eoll darkling down the torrent of his fate:" and Keats," " Darkling I listen: and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful death." Cheerful ways of men. Compare Tennyson's Tithonus: " Why should a man desire in any way To vary from...

...mid-May's oldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of bees on summei 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,...

...die. There for some weeks he lay bed-ridden, more than "half in love with easeful Death," not calling him " Soft names in many a mused rhyme To take into the air my quiet breath," This was on the 2yth of February, 1821. He was buried in the Protestant Cemetery; where some eighteen...

...And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. Darkling I listen; and for many a time...mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; stood in sad a path ***», sick for home, ' A*eu' the As she i adieu Pas* the ' my sole se!f! So welI...

...And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. 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...

...Percy, author of Lanterns on the Levee, was "one with those," declared his friend David Cohn, "who have been 'half in love with easeful Death, call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme.' " 15 "Uncle Will," as Walker called him, suffered from hypertension and poor health, and was to die...

...eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, so The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. 6 Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been...mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; 55 Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art...

...them...,[Feeble's words]." On the possible attractiveness of death, John Keats confessed: (783) . . .many a time I have been half in love with easeful...Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme. Life's general role and meaning have been expounded from a variety of well-supported perspectives,...

...poetically preoccupied with death, whether as late as Wagner's Liebestod or as early as Keats' Nightingale: "I have been half in love with easeful Death. "Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme..." and Rachel Carson — all latter-day Isaiahs and saint Johns, all preaching the same sermon in different...

...full, she felt, as hers had never been— never even during those easy years when her father was alive. Darkling, I listen: and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death. He seemed to be saying: I am getting old and death will overtake me not so long from now. But I am...