| Robert Chambers - 1880 - 824 страница
...musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer evea. Darkling T lipten ; frad 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 the air my quiet breath : Now more than ever... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - 1881 - 704 страница
...eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. Darkling I listen ; and, for many a time I have been...Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To taVe into the air my quiet breath ; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight... | |
| Joseph P. Farrell - 1997 - 1234 страница
...poetically preoccupied with death, whether as late as Wagner's Liebestod or as early as Keats' Nightingale: "I have been half in love with easeful Death. "Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme..." and Rachel Carson — all latter-day Isaiahs and saint Johns, all preaching the same sermon in different... | |
| Jennie Wang - 1997 - 248 страница
...lyricism of Keats's poem. Stanza 6 articulates Ike's heart's truth as though it were Ike's own voice: 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 the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever... | |
| Louise Cripps Samoiloff - 1997 - 244 страница
...full, she felt, as hers had never been— never even during those easy years when her father was alive. Darkling, I listen: and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death. He seemed to be saying: I am getting old and death will overtake me not so long from now. But I am... | |
| Judy Hall - 1998 - 338 страница
...existence."1 Keats' poem "Ode to a Nightingale" expresses this Hades Moon readiness for death perfectly: 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 the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever... | |
| Jonathan Dollimore - 1998 - 424 страница
...spectre-thin, and dies, Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs 6 . . . for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring... | |
| Karl Siegfried Guthke - 1999 - 316 страница
...at, without making its object concrete, in the well-known lines of Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale": "Darkling I listen; and for many a time / I have been half in love with easeful Death" - to which Shelley seems to respond equally vaguely when, in the preface to Adonais, his elegy on Keats's... | |
| Andrew Motion - 1999 - 702 страница
...diluted by wishful thinking. In the sixth stanza this prompts a moment of philosophical stocktaking: 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 the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever... | |
| James S. Leonard - 1999 - 332 страница
...within us. No wonder, then, that the last fifteen years of his life, in many respects, echo Keats's "and, for many a time / I have been half in love with easeful Death." Perhaps this love, half -ironically stated in some of the entries of Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar,... | |
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