 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1847 - 352 pages
...sighs she heaved were soft and low, And naught was green upon the oak, But moss and rarest misletoe : She kneels beneath the huge oak tree, And in silence...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...had unintentionally imitated : — " The night is chill, the forest bare, Is it the wind that raoneth bleak ? There is not wind enough in the air To move...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 - 1847 - 638 pages
...side it seems to be, Of ihe huge, broad-breasted, old oak-tree. The night is chill; the forest Imre ; Is it the wind that moaneth bleak ? There is not wind...The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances us often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1848 - 406 pages
...betrothed knight ; And she in the midnight wood will pray For the weal of her lover that's far away. She stole along, she nothing spoke, The sighs she...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
...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...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
...other side it seems to be, Of the huge, broad-breasted, old oak-tree. The night ia chill; the foreal bare; Is it the wind that moaneth bleak ? There is...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... | |
 | William Sloan Graham - 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...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:... | |
 | 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,...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 the... | |
 | Robert Hunt - 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...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, the... | |
 | John Aikin - 1850 - 764 pages
...There is not wind enough in the air To move away the ringlet curl From the lovely lady's cheekThere ost, When kiuttlin in the fanse-house^ Wi' him that...hoordet niu$ Are round an' round divided, An' m<mi<: iky Hush, beating heart of Christabel! Jesu, Maria, shield her well! She folded her arms beneath her... | |
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The night is chill ; the forest bare ; Is it the wind that moaneth bleak ? 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... 
