 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1864 - 332 pages
...of my childish romance, I could not help thinking of this passage in " Christabel :"— " There was not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last...high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky." Suddenly, while I was repeating the last two lines dreamily over and over, the St. Bernard uttered... | |
 | 1865 - 496 pages
...kneels beneath the hnge oak tree, And in silence prayeth she. * * * * The night is chill, the forest is bare. Is it the wind that moaneth bleak? There is...and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks np at the sky." Then Christabel descries a strange lady standing in the wood, — " A damsel bright,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1865 - 980 pages
...There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often аз dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks np at the sky." Then Christabel descries a strange lady standing in the wood, — " A damsel bright,... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1866 - 434 pages
...Chief poems : ' Ode to the Departing Year,' ' France,' ' Chrtstabel,' ' The Ancient Mariner,' &o.] The night is chill, the forest bare ; Is it the wind...high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky. Hush, beating heart of Christabel ! Jesu Maria, shield her well ! She foldeth her arms beneath her... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1866 - 502 pages
...broad-breasted old oak-tree. The night is chill, the forest bare : Is it the wind that moaneth bleak. There in not wind enough in the air To move away the ringlet...hanging so high On the topmost twig that looks up to the sky. Bush, beating heart of Christabel !" There is one more principle in the study of language... | |
 | English fiction - 1877 - 686 pages
...general flow ; but the number of unaccented syllables is allowed to vary, as in the hexameter. Thus : ' There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf,...so high. On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.'f ' If you're waking, call me early, call me early, mother dear. For I would see the sun rise... | |
 | English fiction - 1877 - 682 pages
...general flow ; but the number of unaccented syllables is allowed to vary, as in the hexameter. Thus : ' There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf,...so high. On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.'f ' If you're waking, call me early, call me early, mother dear. For I would see the sun rise... | |
 | English fiction - 784 pages
...trees in the cold evening air, where there was " —not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the h1st of its clan. That dances as often as dance it can....high On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky." between the crooked boughs and stiff delicate black twigs, the faint dull blood-stain low down in the... | |
 | 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
...the other side it seems to be, Of the huge, broad-breasted, old oak-tree. There is not wind enough in air To move away the ringlet curl From the lovely...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... | |
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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... 
