The poet later wonders "was it a vision, or a waking dream?" and proclaims "thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!"
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}"