| Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 sidor
...upon the midnight with no pain, While 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. VII. Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 512 sidor
...rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain— To thy high requiem become a sod." In such an ecstasy. —with the conclusion of the " Ode to the Skylark"•!— " Yet if we could scorn... | |
| John Keats - 1856 - 326 sidor
...cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high reoniiem become a sod. 7Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry generations tread thee... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 sidor
...with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an cestacy 1 Still wonldst thoa sing, and I have ears in vain— To thy high requiem become a sod. Thou watt not born for death, immortal bird t ffo hungry generationt tread then down : The roice I hear... | |
| William Hone - 1859 - 880 sidor
...ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. r. Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice 1 hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and cluwn : Perhaps the self-same song... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1910 - 914 sidor
...the all-destroyer, throws not a hand.' Keats, too, plays with the thought in his famous ode : Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry...In ancient days by emperor and clown : Perhaps the self -same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home She stood in tears... | |
| William Harrison ainsworth - 1860 - 516 sidor
...the Power of Sound. • Ibid. Miscellaneous Sonnets, VI. Italy, "The Felucca." The Dead Eagle. Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I Lear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown : Perhaps the self-same song... | |
| England - 1860 - 532 sidor
...cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an cestacy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become« sod. vn. Thou was not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 sidor
...seize upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy ! Still would'st thou sing, and I have ears in vain...by emperor and clown ; Perhaps the self-same song hath found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien... | |
| 1890 - 366 sidor
...cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain —...No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice 1 hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown : Perhaps the self-same song... | |
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