...for death, immortal bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing njght was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown : Perhaps...amid the alien corn ; The same that oft-times hath Charmed magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn. Forlorn ! the...

...tread thee down ; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and down : Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through...amid the alien corn ; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn." But this exquisite...

...nightingale, the 'immortal bird' heard by succeeding generations from ancient days to the present: 'Perhaps the self-same song that found a path/ Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,/ She stood in tears amid the alien corn.'57 Rilke can scarcely have been aware of the...

...remain aware of its illusionary nature" — the last stanzas of Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale": Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry...amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. Forlorn! the...

...poignancy may not even be the most wonderful thing in the stanza! Look at the full ten lines: Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry...amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.85 Perhaps the...

...backward, through a layered history of listeners, rather than forward, to a single implicated reader: No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I...found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn74 Marlon Ross, comparing Keats with Wordsworth,...

...Congreve ( 1670-1729). 3. The translator echoes John Kcats's (17951821 ) Ode to a Nightmgu/e, lines 65-67: "Perhaps the selfsame song that found a path / Through...home, / She stood in tears amid the alien corn." The Yiddish line, however, does not employ the metaphor of "corn": "Un zingen zing ikh af a fremder relt...

...Talmud, Megillah 14a, 15a. 67. Leach, "The Legitimacy of Solomon," 62. 68. Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale": "Perhaps the self-same song that found a path / Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, / She stood in tears amid the alien corn." Cf. the satire in David Lodge's Changing...

...time there was no pleasure in it. All she could think of was another poem Willard Slade had liked: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn . . . Well, she was sick for home, all right;...

...colour photographs or on supermarket shelves. Next, from the closing stanzas of 'Ode to a Nightingale': The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient...amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas in faerie lands forlorn. Forlorn! The...