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Ode to a Nightingale

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noun

  1. a poem (1819) by Keats.


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Within that year Keats turned out, among other poems, The Eve of St. Agnes, La Belle Dame sans Merci, the Ode to Autumn, the Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on a Grecian Urn.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the Ode to a Nightingale, observes Dr. Dunbar, John Keats wrote a perfect, succinct description of a psychosomatic patient: "I have been half in love with easeful Death."

From Time Magazine Archive

Probably the best-known lyrics of the two poets are the stanzas To a Skylark and the Ode to a Nightingale.

From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Andrew Cecil Bradley

Or that the second stanza of the "Ode to a Nightingale" runs on four sounds instead of five?

From A Study of Poetry by Bliss Perry

Near John Masefield's house was the garden where Keats had written his immortal Ode to a Nightingale.

From The Loom of Youth by Alec Waugh

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