 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 588 pages
...the woods Sigh to her song, and with lier wail resound. THOMSON. THE NIGHTINGALE. THOU wast not born for death, immortal bird ! No hungry generations tread....same that oft-times hath Charmed magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, iu faery lands forlorn. KEATS. THE NIGHTINGALE. As it fell upon... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy 1 of opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. Forlorn ! the very word is like a bell... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 288 pages
...wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain, — To thy high requiem become a sod. Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird ! No hungry generations tread...The same that ofttimes hath Charmed magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in fairy-lands forlorn. Forlorn! the very word is like a bell... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 pages
...wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. Thou wast not born ilds of yon empyreal blue ! Oh, on thy rapid prow...tranquil sea ! To brush the embers from the sun, The opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. Forlorn ! the very word is like a bell... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 pages
...Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain, To thy high requiem become a sod. Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird ! No hungry generations tread...stood in tears amid the alien corn, The same that oft times hath Charmed magic casements opening On the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 pages
...ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain, — To thy high requiem become a sod. 236 237 The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient...The same that ofttimes hath Charmed magic casements opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. Forlorn ! the very word is like a bell,... | |
 | John Dennis - 1876 - 466 pages
...suggestiveness than the ' Ode to-a Nightingale.' Listen but to one stanza of it : " Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry generations tread...found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in ttars amid the alien corn ; The same that oft-times hath Charmed magic... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 618 pages
...wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain, — To thy high requiem become a sod. Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird ! No hungry generations tread...The same that ofttimes hath Charmed magic casements opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. Forlorn ! the very word is like a bell,... | |
 | 1877 - 832 pages
...trifle complex 1 , but the music is exquisite. Keats has the same perfection :— Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry generations tread...stood in tears amid the alien corn ; The same that oft times hath Charmed magic casements, opening en the foam Of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn.... | |
 | University magazine - 1877 - 810 pages
...the music is exquisite. Keats has the same perfection : — Thou wast not born for death, iramortal Bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The...stood in tears amid the alien corn ; The same that oft times hath Charmed magic casements, opening en the foam Of perilous seas, in fairy laude forlorn.... | |
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Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick... 
