...green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth! O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles...dim: Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit...

...Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth! ,'. 0, for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth. JOHN KEATS ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE • Few things in the whole panoply of nature hold more sensual appeal...

...zwischen dem Nahraum und dem "melodious plot" (l 8) der Nachtigall beherrscht: That I might dtink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim (II 9-10) Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known (III...

...country-green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth. O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles...unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim. Ill Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness,...

...to hear how the ambiguous pause of the exclamation-mark accentuates the echo of the poet's wish to "leave the world unseen, / And with thee fade away into the forest dim" (19—20). Throughout the poem, Keats listens to himself as much as to the bird — in his repetitions...