 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
 | Stewart Edward White - 1924 - 518 pages
...poem that she recognized as having read and thrilled over in her college days, years and years ago. Hark! ah, the nightingale— The tawny-throated! Hark from that moonlit cedar what a burst What triumph! hark!—what pain! She read it through line on line to the very end: Listen,... | |
 | Stewart Edward White - 1924 - 516 pages
...poem that she recognized as having read and thrilled over in her college days, years and years ago. Hark! ah, the nightingale— The tawny-throated! Hark from that moonlit cedar what a burst What triumph! hark!—what pain! She read it through line on line to the very end: Listen,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1923 - 276 pages
...let him feel: / have lived. Heap up his moments with life! Triple his pulses with fame ! PHILOMELA. HARK ! ah, the nightingale— The tawny-throated! Hark, from that moonlit cedar what a burst I What triumph ! hark !—what pain ! 0 wanderer from a Grecian shore, Still, after many years,... | |
 | Stewart Edward White - 1924 - 518 pages
...poem that she recognized as having read and thrilled over in her college days, years and years ago. Hark! ah, the nightingale The tawny-throated! Hark from that moonlit cedar what a burst What triumph! hark!—what pain! She read it through line on line to the very end: Listen,... | |
 | Edwin Markham - American poetry - 1927 - 362 pages
...Spirit, It fluttered and failed for breath. To-night it doth inherit The vasty hall of Death. "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,... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - Art - 1995 - 682 pages
...Apollodorus, 3,14, § 8 ; Ovid, Metam. 6, 412-676. See Commentary. 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 years... | |
 | Henry Tompkins Kirby-Smith - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 324 pages
...in his prosody. However it occurred, there is no question that "Philomela" is free verse: PHILOMELA Hark! ah, the nightingale— The tawny-throated! Hark, from that moonlit cedar what a burst! What a triumph! hark!—what pain! O wanderer from a Grecian shore, Still, after many years,... | |
 | Education - 1910 - 442 pages
...Greek city of Daulis, the "lone Daulis" in the "high Cephissian vale" of Arnold's poem. PIin.OMELA Hark! Ah the Nightingale! The tawny-throated! Hark! from that moonlit cedar what a burst! What triumph! hark—what pain! О Wanderer from a Grecian shore, Still, after many years,... | |
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