...out a shout most heaven -rend ing, Conjure thee to receive our humble Pœan, Upon thy Mount Lyccan ! he : "Tis not through envy of thy happy lot But being too happy in thy happiness, That thou, light-winged...

...out a shout most heaven-rending, Conjure thee to receive our humble Ptean, Upon thy Mount Lycean ! hould fate command me to the farthest verge Of the...Indian mountains, or his setting beam Flames on : 'Tis not through envy of thy Imppy lot But being too happy in thy happiness, That thou, light-winged"...

...desire." Some mood akin to this seems to steal over the poet as he opens the ode with the liues : — My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense...the drains One minute past, and Lethewards had sunk. But note, it is only " Lethewards," only to the brink of Lethe, the river of oblivion, that the poet...

...great beauty, the ' Ode to a Nightingale,' may serve as a companion to Shelley's ' Skylark :'— My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...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 thine happiness,...

...And all along a dismal rack of clouds, Upon the boundaries of day and night, He stretch'd himself,»" grief and radiance faint. OTHER TITANS FALLEN. Scarce...happiness,— That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, 0 for a draught of vintage, that hath been Cool'da long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of Flora...

...the time ; And all along a dismal rack of clouds, Upon the boundaries of day and night, He stretch 'd himself, in grief and radiance faint. OTHER TITANS...drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I bad drunk. Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Letbe-wards had sunk. 'Tis...

...perusal of its mellifluous numbers. Take the following specimen, all we can afford to present : — ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. ' My heart aches, and a drowsy...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,...

...life, when the joyous notes of the Nightingale fall upon his ear. He thus addresses it : — " 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy...happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trces, In some melodious plot Of bcechen grove and shadows numberless Singest of summer in full-throated...

...and their chancel vault, The heaven itself, is blinded throughout night. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE.18 My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, O for a draught of vintage, that hath been Cool'da long age in the deep. delved earth, Tasting of Flora...

...den, Arc things to brood on with more ardency Than the death-day of empires. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. Mr heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,...is not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too hoppy in thy happiness, — That thou, light-winged dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen...