...latter poem, though not without his characteristic manner, as a creation is simply exquisite : — ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My seuse, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the draius One minute past,...

...the storm. That night the Baron dreamt of many a woe, And all his warrior-guests, with shade and form Of witch, and demon, and large coffin-worm, Were long...aye unsought for slept among his ashes cold. POEMS. [published with Lamia £-v., POEMS. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains...

...warrior-guests, with shade and form Of witch and demon and large coffin-worm, Were long be-nightmared. Angela, the old, Died palsy-twitch'd with meagre face...; The Beadsman, after thousand aves told, For aye unsought-for slept among his ashes cold. NOTES. " The Eve of St. Agnes " is one of the finest of Keats's...

...some of these changes. For instance, the poet at one time changed the romantic close of his poem,37 The Beadsman, after thousand aves told, For aye unsought for slept among his ashes cold, into the slightly cynical The beadsman stiffen'd, 'twixt a sigh and laugh Ta'en sudden from his beads...

...witch and demon, and large coffin-worm, Were long be-nightmared. Angela the old Died palsy-twitched, with meagre face deform ; The Beadsman, after thousand aves told, For aye unsought-for slept among his ashes cold." With Keats, who died in 1820, we enter upon the fair field...

...warrior-guests, with shade and form Of witch, and demon, and large coffin-worm, Were long be-nightmared. Angela the old Died palsy-twitch'd, with meagre face...; The Beadsman, after thousand aves told, For aye unsought-for slept among his ashes cold. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness...

...in awe of the Powers of the Grave to venture again so near to their precincts. TN ТАЬГООК». ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, ¡is though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and...

...shade and form Of witch, and demon, and large coffin-worm, Were long be-nightmared. Angela the old 375 Died palsy-twitch'd, with meagre face deform ; The Beadsman, after thousand aves told, For aye unsought-for slept among his ashes cold. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness...

...witch and demon and large coffin-worm, Were long be-nightmared. Angela the old Died palsy-twitched, with meagre face deform ; The Beadsman, after thousand aves told, For aye uusought-for slept among his ashes cold." — The Em of St Agnes. Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)...

...shade and form Of witch, and demon, and large coffin-worm, Were long be-nightmar'd. Angela the old 375 Died palsy-twitch'd, with meagre face deform ; The...told, For aye unsought for slept among his ashes cold. NOTES. The great odes which I have set at the beginning of this volume seem to me to be the greatest...