 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
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1867 - 460 pages
...air To move away the ringlet curl From the lovely lady's check — There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances...it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On tha topmost twig that looks at the skj I"] l He gazed, he saw : hp knew the face Of beauty, and tht... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1868 - 714 pages
...lovely lady!s cheek — There is not wind enough to twirl f The one red leaf, the last of its clan, i That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light,...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... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1869 - 416 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... | |
 | René Wellek - Literary Criticism - 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... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Literary Criticism - 1980 - 436 pages
...souls, and those are leaves; he makes no confusion of one with the other. But when Coleridge speaks of The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, he has a morbid, that is to say, a so far false, idea about the leaf; he fancies a life in it, and... | |
 | Walter Pater - Education - 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...high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky:" or this, with a weirdness, again, like that of some wild French etcher — Lol the new-moon winter-bright!... | |
 | Bill Moore - Cooking - 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...and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks at the sky. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Twir7 is a good word, with its moving feel. The way the rhythm... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 268 pages
...lovely lady's cheek — There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, so That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light,...high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky. Hush, beating heart of Christabel! Jesu, Maria, shield her well! 55 She folded her arms beneath her... | |
 | Craig Brestrup - Nature - 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... | |
 | Laurence Coupe - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 346 pages
...souls, and those are leaves; he makes no confusion of one with the other. But when Coleridge speaks of The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can (Christabel, Pt I) he has a morbid, that is to say, a so far false, idea about the leaf; he fancies... | |
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