 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1880 - 738 pages
...To move away the ringlet curl From the lovely lady's choek ; — There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan. That dances as often as dance it con. Hanging so light, and hanging high, [sky, On the Upmost twig that looks up at Ux Hush, beating... | |
 | 1924 - 708 pages
...her moist cold brow." There is a wonderfully beautiful and delicate touch about the concrete image in "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 topmost twig that looks up at the sky." In passages like... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 654 pages
...green upon the oak But moss and rarest misletoe ;* or this — ' 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 topmost twig that looks up at the sky;* — or this,... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...air To move away the ringlet curl From the lovely lady's cheek — There is not wind enough to twirl hy, that I cannot tell," said he ; " But 'twas a famous victory." ROBERT SOUT Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky. Hush, beating... | |
 | Edward Alexander - 1973 - 336 pages
...subjectivism and lifeless reportage in poetry. There are, then, good as well as bad fallacies in poetry. When Coleridge speaks of "the one red leaf, the last...clan, / That dances as often as dance it can," he is perpetrating a falsehood by ascribing to the leaf a will and life it does not have; but he achieves... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 1980 - 436 pages
...without, however, for an instant losing his own clear perception that these are souls, and those are leaves; he makes no confusion of one with the other....fancies a life in it, and will, which there are not; confuses its powerlessness with choice, its fading death with merriment, and the wind that shakes it... | |
 | René Wellek - 1977 - 396 pages
...crawling foam/« ». . .the foam is not cruel, neither does it crawl.« »unhinged by grief«. Seite 206: »The one red leaf, the last of its clan, / That dances as often as dance it can« Seite 206 — 07: ». . .fancies a life in the leaf and will, which there are not; confuses its powerlessness... | |
 | Walter Pater - 1982 - 304 pages
...Nought was green upon the oak But moss and rarest misletoe: or this— 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 topmost twig that looks up at the sky:" or this, with... | |
 | Bill Moore - 1987 - 180 pages
...used. In some English dialects the word nesh means weak, or soft. 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 topmost twig that looks at the sky. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE... | |
 | Craig Brestrup - 1997 - 210 pages
...fallacy.'" Poetic locutions such as The spendthrift crocus," The cruel, crawling foam" (of the sea), and The one red leaf, the last of its clan, /That dances as often as dance it can," illustrated the fallacy in practice. He approved of metaphor that expressed true feeling and which... | |
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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 topmost twig that looks up at the sky. 
