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" Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth... "
Spring-time with the poets, poetry selected and arranged by F. Martin - Page 183
by Frances Martin - 1866
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Select specimens of the English poets, ed. by A. De Vere

Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...eves. 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...amid the alien corn ; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn. Forlorn ! the...
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Nightingale Valley: A Collection, Including a Great Number of the Choicest ...

William Allingham - English poetry - 1860 - 316 pages
...1 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...amid the alien corn ; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. vm. Forlorn !...
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The Cornhill Magazine

William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1910 - 914 pages
...the all-destroyer, throws not a hand.' Keats, too, plays with the thought in his famous ode : Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry...In ancient days by emperor and clown : Perhaps the self -same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home She stood in tears...
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A book of English poetry; ed. by T. Shorter

Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! Still woulrlst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high...amid the alien corn ; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. Forlorn ! the...
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A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English ..., Volume 2

George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 580 pages
...mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath ; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To seize upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring...by emperor and clown ; Perhaps the self-same song hath found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien...
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English ...

Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...! Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice 1 hear this passing night was heard In ancient days...amid the alien corn ; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. Forlorn! the...
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A manual of English literature and of the history of the English language ...

George Lillie Craik - English language - 1862 - 578 pages
...mused rhjme, To take into the air my quiet breath ; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To seize upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring...by emperor and clown ; Perhaps the self-same song hath found a path Through the sad heart of lluth, when, sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien...
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language

English poetry - 1863 - 438 pages
...summer eves. 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...amid the alien corn ; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. Forlorn ! the...
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The Poetical Works of John Keats

John Keats - English poetry - 1863 - 496 pages
...upon the midnight with no pain,~ While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstacy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain —...amid the alien corn ; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. : Forlorn !...
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The Poetical Works of John Keats

John Keats - English poetry - 1863 - 370 pages
...upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy ! Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry...amid the alien corn ; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. Forlorn ! the...
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