This poem describes Ruth when "she stood in tears amid the alien corn," and references "the viewless wings of Poesy." The speaker feels he "Lethe-wards had sunk" and "my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk" before wishing for a drink of Hippocrene to allow him to "leave the world unseen." It begins, "my heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains." The poet later wonders "was it a vision, or a waking dream?" and proclaims "thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!" For 10 points, name this John Keats ode about a son
This poem describes Ruth when "she stood in tears amid the alien corn," and references "the viewless wings of Poesy." The speaker feels he "Lethe-wards had sunk" and "my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk" before wishing for a drink of Hippocrene to allow him to "leave the world unseen." It begins, "my heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains." The poet later wonders "was it a vision, or a waking dream?" and proclaims "thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!" For 10 points, name this John Keats ode about a songbird.
This poem describes Ruth when "she stood in tears amid the alien corn," and references "the viewless wings of Poesy."
"Ode to a {Nightingale}"