 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 Seiten
...hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being...numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cool'da long age in the deep -delved earth, Tasting of... | |
 | Deborah Forbes - 2004 - 260 Seiten
...the poem abruptly seeks an external reason for it in order to secure the speaker's flickering mind: Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too...shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.19 But the state of mind in the first part of the stanza and the "light-winged Dryad" retrospectively... | |
 | Edward Leeson - 2004 - 728 Seiten
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 | W. H. Hudson - 2004 - 96 Seiten
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MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, > Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness,... 
