 Mary Donnelly," Hood's " I remember, I remember," or Kingsley's " The Sands O "Dee." Yet he can be very nobly lyrical in certain uneven measures depending upon tone, and which, like " Philomela," express an ecstatic sensibility : " Hark ! ah, the nightingale...  Scribners Monthly - Page 4401874Full view - About this book
 | Charles Mills Gayley - English literature - 1911 - 720 pages
...Ovid, Metam. 6, 412-676. See Commentary. 249 250 . THE CLASSIC MYTHS 175. Matthew Arnold's Philomela. Hark ! ah, the nightingale — The tawny-throated ! Hark, from that moonlit cedar what a burst ! What triumph ! hark ! — what pain ! O wanderer from a Grecian shore, Still, after many... | |
 | Poetry - 1912 - 416 pages
...sorrowing: Even so, poor bird, like thee, None alive will pity me. Richard Barnfield [1574-1627] PHILOMELA HARK! ah, the nightingale— The tawny-throated! Hark, from that moonlit cedar what a burst! What triumph! hark!—what pain! 0 wanderer from a Grecian shore, Still, after many years,... | |
 | E. V. Lucas - 1914 - 542 pages
...with disdain The voiceless Form he chose to feign While fluttering in the bushes. William Wordsworth. HARK! ah, the Nightingale! The tawny-throated! Hark! from that moonlit cedar what a burst! What triumph! hark!—what pain! O Wanderer from a Grecian shore, Still, after many years,... | |
 | Nature - 1914 - 428 pages
...age had not frozen your blood — At the sorrow of my sweet pipings. Percy Bysshe Shelley PHILOMELA HARK! ah, the nightingale — The tawny-throated! Hark! from that moonlit cedar what a burst! What triumph! hark! — what pain ! O wanderer from a Grecian shore, Still, after many years,... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1915 - 560 pages
...blithe, musical, gay, or serious off-hand poem: such, for example, as Thackeray's "Bouillabaisse," Allingham's "Mary Donnelly," Hood's " I Remember,...tawny-throated! Hark! from that moonlit cedar what a burst! What triumph ! hark — what pain ! " Listen, Eugenia — How thick the bursts come crowding... | |
 | Lafcadio Hearn - English literature - 1915 - 420 pages
...melancholy side of the sound,—Matthew Arnold. One of his best short poems is entitled "Philomela." Hark ! ah, the Nightingale ! The tawny-throated ! Hark! from that moonlit cedar what a burst! What triumph ! hark—what pain ! O Wanderer from a Grecian shore, Still, after many years... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 944 pages
...dwells a loved one, 140 But cruel is she! She left lonely for ever The kings of the sea." PHILOMELA Hark! ah, the nightingale— The tawny-throated! Hark, from that moonlit cedar what a burst! What triumph! hark!—what pain! O wanderer from a Grecian shore, 5 Still, after many years,... | |
 | Rabindranath Tagore - Hindu philosophy - 1922 - 352 pages
...there, it is the script of creation. Matthew Arnold, in his poem addressed to a nightingale, sings: Hark ! ah, the nightingale— The tawny-throated! Hark, from that moonlit cedar what a burst! What triumph ! hark !—what pain ! But pain, when met within the boundaries of limited reality,... | |
 | Rabindranath Tagore - Hindu philosophy - 1922 - 218 pages
...there, it is the script of creation. Matthew Arnold, in his poem addressed to a nightingale, sings: Hark! ah, the nightingale— The tawny-throated ! Hark, from that moonlit cedar what a burst! What triumph! hark!—what pain! But pain, when met within the boundaries of limited reality,... | |
 | Jay Broadus Hubbell, John Owen Beaty - American poetry - 1922 - 568 pages
...Nightingale," Arnold's "Philomela" is the best poem upon the favorite bird of the English poets. PHILOMELA Hark! ah, the nightingale— The tawny-throated! Hark, from that moonlit cedar what a burst! What triumph ! hark!—what pain! O wanderer from a Grecian shore, Still, after many years,... | |
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