Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. ... MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains ... Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains

John Keats (1795–1821). The Poetical Works of John Keats. 1884. ... MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains ... Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains

The Writing of "Ode to a Nightingale" ... A major concern in "Ode to a Nightingale" is Keats's perception of the conflicted nature of human life, i.e., the interconnection or mixture of pain

A summary of Ode to a Nightingale in John Keats's Keats’s Odes. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Keats’s Odes and what it means. ... < Previous Section; Ode to Psyche

An essay by Anne Wullschlager which looks at Keats' Ode to a Nightingale . ... John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale": An Easy Publication for a Difficult End

With his assistance I succeeded, and this was his 'Ode to a Nightingale', a poem which has been the delight of everyone.'

1. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains;   My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains; ... Ode to a Nightingale; by John Keats

'Ode to a Nightingale' by: John Keats My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull ... Notes on Poetry: Ode to a Nightingale

Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems ... My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains ... One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:

Written on a spring day of exceptional warmth and beauty in 1819, the 'Ode to a nightingale' is a meditation on the eternal purity of the bird's song.