...poison while the bee-mouth sips: Ay, in the very temple of Delight Veiled Melancholy has her sovereign e sapphire-blaze, Where Angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but, blasted John Keats [1795-1831] THE RAINY DAY THE day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind...

...almost self-sufficient. Keats's version of the same psychological phenomenon is famous: Ay, in the very temple of Delight Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran...tongue Can burst Joy's grape against his palate fine. Keats and Thomas share the fine palate. It is in referring to this passage that Frank Kermode notes...

...Bidding adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh, Turning to poison while the bee-mouth sips: Ay, in the very temple of Delight Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran...whose strenuous tongue Can burst Joy's grape against bis palate fine; His soul shall taste the sadness of her might, And be among her cloudy trophies hung,...

...Bidding adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh, Turning to poison while the bee-mouth sips: Ay, in the very temple of Delight Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran...her might, And be among her cloudy trophies hung. (21-30) We no longer find ourselves in contact with the natural images of the spring season, the April...

...Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine, Though seen of none save him whose strenuous tongue Can hurst Joy's grape against his palate fine; His soul shall...her might. And be among her cloudy trophies hung. Within the context of an aesthetics of reception provided by a concentration on the visual and an apostrophic...

...Bidding adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh, Turning to poison while the bee-mouth sips: Ay, in the very temple of Delight Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran...her might, And be among her cloudy trophies hung. Melancholy is the poem's titular figure; she inhabits the center of the "temple of Delight"; she is...

...Bidding adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh, Tuming to poison while the bee-mouth sips: Ay, in the very temple of Delight Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran...her might. And be among her cloudy trophies hung. 30 TO AUTUMN Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring...

...forever. — THOMAS MANN The Magic Mountain A ROLE OF THE DICE Ay, in the very temple of delight Veiled Melancholy has her sovran shrine, Though seen of none...her might, And be among her cloudy trophies hung. — JOHN KEATS Ode on Melancholy THE GHOST ROBERT FITZROY'S CLOSET On a Sunday morning in August 1822,...

...home of the Greek gods. 1 1 his greet summoner - Jove. 1 5 Tritons - sea gods. 1 8 meods - meadows. Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine, Though seen...fine; His soul shall taste the sadness of her might, 30 And be among her cloudy trophies hung. Lamia PARTI UPON a time, before the faery broods Drove Nymph...

...developing his suggestion that 'Melancholy' (bitterness) dwells in 'Delight' (sweetness): Ay, in the very temple of delight Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran...sadness of her might, And be among her cloudy trophies hung.57 Harrison's choice of dedicatee is acute. Keats struggled with his love of the sensuous apprehension...