...heaven-rending, Conjure thee to receive our humble Ptean, Upon thy Mount Lycean ! Ode to a Nightingale. My the farthest verge Of the green earth, to distant...Indian mountains, or his setting beam Flames on $ Imppy lot But being too happy in thy happiness, That thou, light-winged" Dryad of the trees, In some...

...desire." Some mood akin to this seems to steal over the poet as he opens the ode with the liues : — My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense...the drains One minute past, and Lethewards had sunk. But note, it is only " Lethewards," only to the brink of Lethe, the river of oblivion, that the poet...

...great beauty, the ' Ode to a Nightingale,' may serve as a companion to Shelley's ' Skylark :'— My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-ward had sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, ^ But being too happy in thine happiness,...

...night, He stretch'd himself, in grief and radiance faint. OTHER TITANS FALLEN. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE.* My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk. 'T is not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, That thou, light-winged...

...and their chancel vault, The heaven itself, is blinded throughout night. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE.'* My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk. 'T is not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, That thou, light-winged...

...night, He stretch'd himself, in grief and radiance faint. OTHER TITANS FALLEN. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE." My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk. 'T is not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, That thou, light-winged...

...and their chancel vault, The heaven itself, is blinded throughout night. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE." . My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk. 'T is not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness,— That thou, light-winged...

...den, Are things to brood on with more ardency Than the death-day of empires. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. MT heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk ; 'T is not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — That thou, light-winged...

...had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk. *T is not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy...light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beeches green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. O for a draught of...

...fret" of life, when the joyous notes of the Nightingale fall upon his ear. He thus addresses it : — " 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being...happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trces, In some melodious plot Of bcechen grove and shadows numberless Singest of summer in full-throated...