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 and hear each other groan;
Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs,
Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;
Where but to think is to be full of sorrow
And leaden-eyed despairs,
Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes,
Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow.
Read the verse.

In this verse from “Ode to a Nightingale,” what does the speaker say that the bird has never known and that he himself would like to forget?

A. hair and eyes

B. aging and sadness

C. illness and recovery

D. beauty and love

In this excerpt of "Ode to a Nightingale," the speaker talks to the bird. He urges the bird to leave, and to go back to a place where he has never known aging and sadness. He states that to live among men is to live in constant suffering. Men get tired, old, sick. Men die. Beautiful people age and they grow pale and thin. The speaker implies that the human life is so terrible, the bird is lucky not to have known it.