...few lines of verse, one of the most familiar passages in the Romantic canon, the opening of Keats's 'Ode to a Nightingale': My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock 1 had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk ....

...dead . . . may ache in icy hoods and mails' (lines 14 and 18). At the end, after the lovers have fled, The Beadsman, after thousand aves told, For aye unsought for slept among his ashes cold. The Beadsman's prayers, which lead only to 'ashes', are of no service to the Baron or his warrior-guests....

...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...with meagre face deform; The Beadsman, after thousand aves31 told, For aye32 unsought for slept among his ashes cold. Ode to a Nightingale My heart aches,...

...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 be-nightmar'd, Angela the old Died palsy- twitch'd, with meagre face deform; The Beadsman, after thousand aves told, For aye unsought...

...warrior-guests, with shade and form Of witch and demon, and large coffin-worm Were longbe-nightmar'd. Angela the old Died palsy-twitch'd, with meagre face...told, For aye unsought for slept among his ashes cold. (st. 41-42) LikeTighe's ending, this is an objectifying gesture, a withdrawal of sympathetic perspective...

...woe, And all his warrior-guests, with shade and form Of witch, and demon, and large coffin-worm, 3 75 Were long be-nightmar'd. Angela the old Died palsy-twitch'd,...told, For aye unsought for slept among his ashes cold. 364 huge] large D 364 flaggon] beaker D, K 366 sagacious] unangerd D 368 lie] lay D, R 371 away] not...

...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...told, For aye unsought for slept among his ashes cold. Reading 'The Eve of St Agnes' in this way means stressing that it is as deeply concerned with the resources...

...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...told, For aye unsought for slept among his ashes cold. 9 Swinburne, "Keats'. The brillianr achievement of the poem as a whole has been the creation of a world,...

...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...told, For aye unsought for slept among his ashes cold. FOG-HORN (WS Merwin, 1927-) Surely that moan is not the thing That men thought they were making, when...

...those left behind in the fable ate poinredly deprived of life: Angela the old Died palsy-twirch'd, wish meagre face deform; The Beadsman, after thousand aves told, For aye unsought for slepr among his ashes cold. (375-8) The contrast with Lucrere could scatcely be more conclusive. There...