There is not wind enough in the air To move away the ringlet curl From the lovely lady's cheek— There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On... The Poetical Works of Lord Byron - Page 122by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 827 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Sloan Graham - Biography & Autobiography - 1849 - 302 pages
...whilom sang on this wise — " The night is chill, the forest bare : Is it the wind that moaneth bleak 7 There is not wind enough in the air To move away the...and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up to the sky." A school-boy can correct Milton's roughnesses, and replace them with Pope-ish uniformity:... | |
| William Sloan Graham - Biography & Autobiography - 1849 - 292 pages
...is chill, the forest bare : Is it the wind that moaneth bleak ? There is not wind enough in the ahTo move away the ringlet curl From the lovely lady's...and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up to the sky." A school-boy can correct Milton's roughnesses, and replace them with Pope-ish uniformity:... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 578 pages
...huge, broad-breasted, old oak-tree. The night ia chill; the foreal bare; Is it the wind that moaneth bleak ? There is not wind enough in the air To move...clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging to light, and hanging BO high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky. Hush, beating heart of... | |
| Electronic journals - 1874 - 714 pages
...it is impossible to doubt who was the author. Let me quote again those wonderful lines : — '•' There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf,...and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky." Also let me draw attention to the passage from Isaiah xvii. 6, to which I believe we... | |
| Robert Hunt - Science - 1849 - 538 pages
...of which it is a member. The tree represents a world, every part exhibiting a mutual dependence. " The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances...and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky,'' is influenced by, and influences, the lowest which pierces the humid soil. Like voices,... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1850 - 764 pages
...There is not wind enough in the air To move away the ringlet curl From the lovely lady's cheekThere is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the...and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the iky Hush, beating heart of Christabel! Jesu, Maria, shield her well! She folded her arms... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...add a brief specimen : — The night is chill ; the forest bare ; Is it the wind that moaneth bleak t N Y>y - 3 \9 F +1 5Z w (u-1 L fzDM ĵ$ W 4 r... 2@ ejV J 9 @֣Z$j( -T4|ol .J1 6 h ̓ l up at the skr. Hush, beating heart of Christabel ! Jesu Maria shield her well 1 She foldeth her arms... | |
| William Hamilton Drummond - English poetry - 1852 - 332 pages
...Somewhat similar is the image presented to us in the following lines of Coleridge's Chriltabel:— " The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances...and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky." NOTE.—To enhance the valour and address of Conloch, it is recorded in a legend that... | |
| George Anderson (of Glasgow.) - 1852 - 106 pages
...clear autumnal days, when the fields are bare, and the woods shorn of their Summer splendour, save " The one red leaf, the last of its clan, " That dances...hanging so high, " On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky ." The dead leaves lie brown and faded, and gathered into heaps and drifts by the hcdgesides,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 622 pages
...broad-breasted, old oak-tree. The night is chill ; the forest bare ; Is it the wind that moaneth, bleak 1 The lovely lady, Christabel, Whom her rather love«...late, A furlong from the castle gate ? Sie had dreams up at the sky Hush, beating heart of Christabel! Jesu, Maria, shield her well ! She folded her arms... | |
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