A little child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to itself, A fairy thing with red round cheeks That always finds and never seeks, Makes such a vision to the sight As fills a father's eyes with light... The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Page 297by James Gillman - 1838 - 362 pagesFull view - About this book
| Helen Mathers - 1901 - 266 pages
...aware of. Preoccupied as he was, he loved her, and her only in the whole world. To him she was always " A little child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to...red, round cheeks, That always finds, and never seeks . . . ." pleasure, as contrasted with the bright spirit that frolicked around thernj and often he would... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1904 - 454 pages
...premising our own frank avowal that we are wholly unable to divine the meaning of any portion of it. " A little child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to...vision to the sight As fills a father's eyes with light 5 And pleasures flow in so thick and fast Upon his heart, that he at last Must needs express his love's... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1902 - 162 pages
...And turning from his own sweet maid, The aged knight, Sir Leoline, THE CONCLUSION TO PART THE SECOND A° little child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to...and never seeks, Makes such a vision to the sight 660 As fills a father's eyes with light ; And pleasures flow in so thick and fast Upon his heart, that... | |
| Harold Bloom - 1971 - 516 pages
...Christabel's enigmatic meanings. The passage seems to be based upon the poet's little son, Hartley: A little child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to...his love's excess With words of unmeant bitterness. Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken... | |
| Robert Brinkley, Keith Hanley - 1992 - 396 pages
...unacceptable behavior. We are asked to believe that the singing and dancing, happy little child so fills a father's eyes with light; And pleasures flow...his love's excess With words of unmeant bitterness. Thus the published version, but in the original draft to Southey the last line read, "With words of... | |
| 1894 - 926 pages
...never seekt, Doth make a Vision to the Sight, Which fills a Father's eyes with Light And Pleasures Bow in so thick and fast Upon his Heart that he at last Most needs express his Love's Excess In words of Wrong and Bitterness. Perhaps it is pretty to force... | |
| Jack Stillinger - 1994 - 268 pages
...sweet maid, The aged knight, Sir Leoline, 655 Led forth the lady Geraldine! THE CONCLUSION TO PART II. A little child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to...round cheeks, That always finds, and never seeks, 660 Makes such a vision to the sight As fills a father's eyes with light; 635/636 no break in 1816,... | |
| Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 pages
...her bosom and half her side— A sight to dream of, not to tell! 'Christabel' 1 1 8if>) pt. 1,1.252 1 A little child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to...seeks, Makes such a vision to the sight As fills a lather's eyes with light. Thristabel' I iSihl pt. 2, conclusion, I. 6<;6 2 I see them all so excellently... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2002 - 260 pages
...admitted 'Fragment* of Kubla Khan ... so Coleridge's reaching for the following lines is understandable: A little child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to...his love's excess With words of unmeant bitterness. Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2002 - 260 pages
...'Fragment' of Kubla Khan ... so Coleridge's reaching for the following lines is understandable: A litde child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to itself, A...his love's excess With words of unmeant bitterness. Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken... | |
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