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" 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 122
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 827 pages
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Remains of William S. Graham: With a Memoir...

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:...
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Remains of William S. Graham: With a Memoir...

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:...
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The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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...
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Notes and Queries

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...
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The Poetry of Science: Or, Studies of the Physical Phenomena of Nature

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,...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from ..., Volume 1

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...
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Cyclopedia of English Literature: a Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 2

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...
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Ancient Irish Minstrelsy

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...
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The art of skating, by Cyclos

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,...
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The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Prose and Verse

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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