...eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, . The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. 6. Darkling I listen ; and, for many a time I have been...ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. 7Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I...

...Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath ; 55 Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the...! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — 60 To thy high requiem become a sod. VII Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird I No hungry...

...grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild ; White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine ; Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves ; And mid-May's eldest...ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. vn. Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice...

...and in both the same exquisite melody and imagery and the same absolute felicity of line and phrase. "Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been...ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod." Keats's happy hours were all spent in fostering his love of beauty, and his whole mission and message...

...eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. 5° Darkling I listen ; and, for many a time I have been...ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. 6° Ode Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice...

...contrast. In the Odes it is subdued to a musing regret — heard pensively in the Ode to a Nightingale: Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been...ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod ; — speaking with a still more chastened beauty in the Ode on a Grecian Urn : Heard melodies are...

...contrast. In the Odes it is subdued to a musing regret — heard pensively in the Ode to a Nightingale: Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been...ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod ; — speaking with a still more chastened beauty in the Ode on a Grecian Urn : Heard melodies are...

...for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a nuiscd rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath ; Now...ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod; — speaking with a still more chastened beauty in the Ode on a Grecian Urn : Heard melodies are sweet,...

...difference if we compare the ' Ode to a Nightingale,' in Keats, for instance — such verses as ' I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft...ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod : ' — with the conclusion of the ode ' To a Skylark'— ' Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride,...

...grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild ; White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine ; Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest...become a sod. Thou wast not born for death, immortal Hird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient...