 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1873 - 906 pages
...pouring forth thy soul abroad, In such an ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in rain, — ni s/ialt be mine, Finger not, my treasure. What Ihe...So the way to fit m« for it Is beyond my savour. sick for She stood in tears amid the alien corn ; The same that ofttimes hath Charmed magic casements... | |
 | John Keats - 1874 - 320 pages
...ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. vn. Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry...found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien com ; The same that oft-times hath Charmed magic casements,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1874 - 870 pages
...Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird. No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I heard this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor...amid the alien corn ; The same that oft-times hath Charra'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn. Contrast this... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 pages
...sweet to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul on high In such an ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and...stood in tears amid the alien corn, The same that oft times hath Charmed magic casements opening On the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 pages
...sweet to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul on high In such an ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and...and clown : Perhaps the self-same song that found a pathj Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn, The... | |
 | John Dennis - English literature - 1876 - 466 pages
...higher power of suggestiveness than the ' Ode to-a Nightingale.' Listen but to one stanza of it : " Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry...found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in ttars amid the alien corn ; The same that oft-times hath Charmed magic... | |
 | 1877 - 832 pages
...idea here is a trifle complex 1 , but the music is exquisite. Keats has the same perfection :— Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry...stood in tears amid the alien corn ; The same that oft times hath Charmed magic casements, opening en the foam Of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn.... | |
 | University magazine - 1877 - 810 pages
...the music is exquisite. Keats has the same perfection : — Thou wast not born for death, iramortal Bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The...stood in tears amid the alien corn ; The same that oft times hath Charmed magic casements, opening en the foam Of perilous seas, in fairy laude forlorn.... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Bible - 1877 - 400 pages
...strain of song-birds in the dim past and the very present : thus Keats with the nightingale — "Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry...Perhaps the selfsame song that found a path Through the sad tears of Ruth. when sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn." And so Hood of the... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1877 - 478 pages
...ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain, — To thy high requiem become a sod. 4 Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry...Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Euth, when, sick for home, 1 The Dryads were the classical nymphs of the forest, or of... | |
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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... 
