| Laura Valentine - 1880 - Страниц: 634
...eglanFast-fadingviolets covered up inleaves; And mid-May's eldest child, Thecoming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. Darkling...time, I have been half in love with easeful Death, [rhyme, Called him soft names in many a mused To take into the air my quiet breath ; Now more than... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - Страниц: 648
...violets covered up in leaves ; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. Darkling...time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath ; Now more than ever... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - Страниц: 1124
...violets covered up in leaves ; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, hey as` "2 Call«! hirn soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath ; Now, more than... | |
| Joseph P. Farrell - 1997 - Страниц: 1234
...poetically preoccupied with death, whether as late as Wagner's Liebestod or as early as Keats' Nightingale: "I have been half in love with easeful Death. "Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme..." and Rachel Carson — all latter-day Isaiahs and saint Johns, all preaching the same sermon in different... | |
| Jennie Wang - 1997 - Страниц: 248
...lyricism of Keats's poem. Stanza 6 articulates Ike's heart's truth as though it were Ike's own voice: Darkling I listen; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever... | |
| Louise Cripps Samoiloff - 1997 - Страниц: 244
...full, she felt, as hers had never been— never even during those easy years when her father was alive. Darkling, I listen: and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death. He seemed to be saying: I am getting old and death will overtake me not so long from now. But I am... | |
| Judy Hall - 1998 - Страниц: 338
...existence."1 Keats' poem "Ode to a Nightingale" expresses this Hades Moon readiness for death perfectly: Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever... | |
| Jonathan Dollimore - 1998 - Страниц: 424
...spectre-thin, and dies, Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs 6 . . . for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring... | |
| Karl Siegfried Guthke - 1999 - Страниц: 316
...at, without making its object concrete, in the well-known lines of Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale": "Darkling I listen; and for many a time / I have been half in love with easeful Death" - to which Shelley seems to respond equally vaguely when, in the preface to Adonais, his elegy on Keats's... | |
| Andrew Motion - 1999 - Страниц: 702
...diluted by wishful thinking. In the sixth stanza this prompts a moment of philosophical stocktaking: Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever... | |
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