| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...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 hanjrinp so high. On the topmost twig that looks at tne sky."1 » [And its thrilling glance, Ac. —... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1848 - 688 pages
...the courts of the sun. At the nal, w, of the Moon. One after another. His shipmates drop down dead. Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky. Hush, beating heart of Christabel! Jesu, Maria, shield her well! She folded her arms beneath... | |
| William Sloan Graham - 1849 - 302 pages
...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...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: why did not... | |
| 1874 - 714 pages
...me quote again those wonderful lines : — '•' There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance...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 owe... | |
| Robert Hunt - 1849 - 538 pages
...member. The tree represents a world, every part exhibiting a mutual dependence. " The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance...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,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 578 pages
...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 to light, and hanging BO high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky. Hush, beating heart of... | |
| John Aikin - 1850 - 764 pages
...away the ringlet curl From the lovely lady's cheekThere is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance...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 beneath... | |
| 1851 - 406 pages
...when " There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as oft as dance it can, Hanging so light and hanging so high On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky,*and only the smoke shews any symptoms of the atmosphere being otherwise than perfectly... | |
| William Hamilton Drummond - 1852 - 332 pages
...the image presented to us in the following lines of Coleridge's Chriltabel:— " The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance...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
...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 as often as dance...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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