 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 topmost twig that looks up at the...  The art of skating, by Cyclos - Page 9by George Anderson (of Glasgow.) - 1852Full view - About this book
 | 1858 - 396 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...high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky," is influenced by, and influences, the lowest root which pierces the humid soil. Like whispering voices,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 792 pages
...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...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 her... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 914 pages
...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...and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks at the sky.*1] 126 127 And her motionless lips lay still as death, And her words came forth without... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...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...high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky. ST COLERIDGE. [From "Christabel."] m WHY sitt'st thou by that ruined hall, Thou aged carle so stern... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 312 pages
...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...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 her cloak,... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers - 1860 - 368 pages
...fall of the leaf. One by one they fall, till, as Coleridge has so prettily sung, there is seen but "The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances...Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost bough that looks up at the sky." 14. But, according to Byron, in his description of an English autumn,... | |
 | English literature - 1861 - 522 pages
...be seen that the injury is felt by the remotest leaf, and that its power to form wood is lessened. " The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances...high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky," is influenced by every wound inflicted upon the parent trunk. Dare we say it is sensible of the injury... | |
 | English literature - 1861 - 532 pages
...be aeen that the injury is felt by the remotest leaf, and that its power to form wood is lessened. " The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances...high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky," is influenced by every wound inflicted upon the parent trunk. Dare we say it is sensible of the injury... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1861 - 448 pages
...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...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 her... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Conduct of life - 1861 - 350 pages
...are all the time bobbing up and down, and trembling, and threatening to bob up and down, like— " The one red leaf, the last of its clan That dances...Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost bough that looks up at the sky." Any person who sits near Mrs. Flutter Budget, or undertakes to look... | |
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