...casements opening On the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. Forlorn !— the very sound is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole...the hill-side ; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley's glades : Was it a vision, or a waking dream ? Fled is that music ! Do I wake or sleep ? —...

...tears amid the alien corn ; The same that ofttimes hath Charmed magic casements, opening on the foam f life are not so changeable as the feelings of human...worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose 1 Adieu ! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. Adieu I adieu ! thy...

...tears amid the alien corn ; The same that ofttimes hath Charmed magic casements, opening on the foam er a sordid sinful world ? No ; from that pure pellucid...erst o'er plains of Bethlehem shone,* No latent ev se.f ! Adieu ! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. Adieu ! adieu !...

...oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. VIII Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toll me back...self! Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is fam'd to do, deceiving elf. Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the...

...hollow low bell. Nothing in the 5 world so unforlorn. Perhaps that is what made Keats straightway feel forlorn. "Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self!" Perhaps that is the reason of it: why they all hear sobs in the bush, 10 when the nightingale sings,...

...bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self! Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is fam'd to do, deceiving elf. Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive...the hillside; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: - Do I wake or sleep? Ode on...

...oft-times hath Charm' d magic casements, opening on the foam 70 Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. 8 Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toll me back...self! Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is fam'd to do, deceiving elf. 75 Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over...

...oft-times hath Charm 'd magic casements, opening on the foam t)f perilous seas, in faery lands forlom. 70 Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toll me back...self! Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is fam'd to do, deceiving elf. Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the...

...tolled twice. Here are the lines, after a stanza break, immediately following the ones quoted above: Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toll me back...self! Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is fam'd to do, deceiving elf. The bell, or more precisely the unseen tongue of the bell,8 swings in opposite...

...once have possessed) as the standard rhyme for "self." Its appearance in the Nightingale is typical: Forlorn! The very word is like a bell To toll me back...cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf ... (71-4) If Keats tells us that the rhyme came as naturally as leaves to a tree, presumably we have...