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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

But I plainly remember how he would sit beside his desk-lamp and chuckle over the Ode to a Nightingale.

From Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned by Christopher Morley

Coleridge's "Ode to a Nightingale" was rejected as dealing with the wrong bird.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 1, 1916 by Sir Owen Seaman

So Amory declaimed "The Ode to a Nightingale" to the bushes they passed.

From This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

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