 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 510 pages
...hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-ward sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, Than thou, light- winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past and Lethe-ward had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green,... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - English poetry - 1856 - 362 pages
...flow from a far more profound fountain of inspiration. After addressing the bird as a " light- winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green and shadows numberless, Singing of summer in full-throated ease," he adds, somewhat fantastically, it must be owned, at first—... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...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 thy happiness, — That thou, light-wing'd Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - American poetry - 1857 - 426 pages
...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 thy happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green,... | |
 | Nature in literature - 1864 - 148 pages
...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 thy happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 642 pages
...not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — That thou, light- winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless Siugest of summer in full-throated ease. O for a draught of vintage, that hath been Cool'da long age... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...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 thy happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 644 pages
...NIGHTINGALE. Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : "Pis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green,... | |
 | John Keats - 1859 - 524 pages
...thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness,— That thou, light-winged Dryad of the tree?, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows...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 Flora... | |
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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,... 
