...sunburned mirth ! for a beaker full of the wann South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, Vith у childhood's idol is waiting for me. For none return...Who cross with the boatman cold and pale ; We hear •2M 237 Where palsy shakes a few sad, last gray hairs, Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin,...

...country-green, Dance, and Provengal song, and sun-burnt mirth ! O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded...unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim : Thou light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,...

...IN SUMMER? — (KEATS) ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. 237 Oh, for a beaker, full of the warm South, f H Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, * With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, •i f9 X X O f And purple-stained mouth ; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with...

...country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth! O for a beaker of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded...bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; Even though Flora and Hippocrene are not names we are readily familiar with, the image of the cool...

...evoking a comparable state of oppression in which he turns to the consolation of the nightingale's song: That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And...dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves has never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan;...

...Forme.' 37-8 I ... the world . . . dissolve . . . fall away: compare Keats, Ode to a Nightingale 19—11: That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And...dim: // Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget the world roll ... a ball . . . away: compare Blake, The Mental Traveller 63—5: The Senses roll themselves...

...country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth! O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded...unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim: III Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness,...

...country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth! O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple -stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into...

...identity. The effect can be felt especially in the Miltonic inversions of the last two lines—"That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, / And with thee fade away into the forest dim." The poet wishes to be unseen; but the world, given his present state, will also be unseen by him. Were...

...microbes. I prefer wine as my major source of these materials. O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded...unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim J. Keats, 'Ode to a Nightingale', A Book of Poetry This stanza illustrates one property of wine pigments:...