 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1872 - 266 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...thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. ;... | |
 | Margaret Laurence - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 340 pages
...(1820): "Darkling I listen; and for many a time / 1 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." Page 67, 3rd paragraph, 4th line: "Kingsley Amis" (192.2-) English novelist and poet whose works include... | |
 | John Gregory Brown - Fiction - 2001 - 228 pages
...speak. 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 the air my quiet breath I was not a fool; my despair was not blind. I understood that my grief had become an affliction, fully... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2002 - 396 pages
...Nightingale : 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...thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. "There... | |
 | Klaus Martens, Paul Duncan Morris, Arlette Warken - American poetry - 2003 - 166 pages
...death: 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...thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain To thy high requiem become a sod. (208) But... | |
 | John R. Strachan - 2003 - 218 pages
...50 6 Darkling40 1 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...thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod.41 60... | |
 | Caroline Upcher - Fiction - 2003 - 306 pages
...Pete's. "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...it rich to die, To cease upon the Midnight with no pain . . ." On and on he went, his voice far too dramatic for the delicacy of the poem. He waved his... | |
 | Marcia Willett - Fiction - 2002 - 442 pages
...forest dim . . . Away! away! for I will fly to thee ... on the viewless wings of Poesy . . . Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the...thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! . . . Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! . . .' Odd that the girl's bright, young,... | |
 | Richard Hayman - History - 2003 - 300 pages
...confesses himself in such a heightened poetical state as 'half in love with easeful death': Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the...thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! " Keats sought in trees and birds symbols that could help communicate his personal ideas and... | |
 | Bernd Fischer - History - 2003 - 276 pages
...Thematic and Dramatic Configurations of the Theme of Death in Kleist's Works Hilda M. Brown Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the...thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! (Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale") RIPENESS AND DEATH are brought into a striking new relationship... | |
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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 the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While... 
