 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 seems it rich to die ; To cease upon the midnight with...  Cyclopædia of English literature - Page 406by Robert Chambers - 1844Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 pages
...even. Darkling I listen ; and for ninny a time 1 have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into...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. Thou... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...summer eves. Darkling I listen ; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into...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. Thou... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. ] )arkling I listen ; and for many a time I have been half in...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. Thou... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1870 - 466 pages
...eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. 50 Darkling I listen; and for many a time I have been...my quiet breath ; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, 55 To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...tree wild ; White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine ; Fast-fading violets covered up in leaves ; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose,...thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! 411 412 HAND-BOOK OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...; And mid- May's oldest child, The coming nmsk-rose, full of dewy wine, The mnnuurous haunt of bees From billow ; Kow, more than ever, seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight, with no pain, While thou art... | |
 | Charles Hartley - 1872 - 372 pages
...fruit-tree wild, White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine, Fast-fading violets covered up in leaves, And mid-May's eldest child — The coming musk-rose,...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. Thou... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 pages
...leaves; And mid-May's eldest child The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine. The murmurous haunt of bees on summer eves. Darkling I listen; and for many a...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. Thou... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1872 - 266 pages
...eves. Darkling I listen ; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death — Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into...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. ;... | |
 | 1872 - 900 pages
...of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of bees on summer eves. Dirkling I listen ; and for many a time 1 Xo npon the midnight, with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad, In such an ecstasy !... | |
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