| 1896 - 664 pages
...то A NIGHTINGALE ' (8ft S. vilL 429).— My heart aches and a drowsy numbneaf pains My senie. 'Til not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy...thine happiness, That thou, light-winged Dryad— Singeāt of summer in full-throated ease*. Beyond doubt the poet must be disclaiming envy on his own... | |
| George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...f had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being...light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of bcechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. O, for a draught of... | |
| David Macbeth Moir - 1851 - 398 pages
...Nightingale," flow from a far more profound fountain of inspiration. After addressing the bird as a " light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green and shadows numberless, Singing of summer in full-throated ease," he adds, somewhat fantastically, it must be owned, at first—... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...I had drunk, . Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-ward had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness,— That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In' some melodious plot Of beechen green,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute pa.st, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tie then, ye ocean-warriors 1 Our song and feast shall flow thy happiness, That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green,... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1852 - 678 pages
...had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tia not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy...light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of bnechen green, and shadows numberless, Singcst of summer in full-throated case. O for a draught of... | |
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — That thou, light-winged dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green,... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...Lethe-wards had sunk ; Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too nappy in thy happmess, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some...numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. Here is a rich array of ideas clothed in the choicest words. But mark the wonderful voluptuousness... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - 1853 - 548 pages
...thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — That tiiou, light-winged Dryad of the tree» In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless Singest of summer in full-throated i 2. 0 for a draught of vintage, tfcat hath been Cool'da long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting... | |
| English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe- wards had sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — That thou, light winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green,... | |
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