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" 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 sky. "
Lectures on the British Poets - Page 120
by Henry Reed - 1860
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: complete in one volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 pages
...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...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...
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Grammar on its true basis. A manual of grammar. [With] Key

Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1847 - 208 pages
...In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column, In the pentameter, aye falling in melody back. From the lovely lady's cheek ; There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its dan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig...
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Remains of William S. Graham: With a Memoir...

William Sloan Graham - 1849 - 302 pages
...it the wind that moaneth bleak 7 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...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:...
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Notes and Queries

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,...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 origination,...
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The Poetry of Science: Or, Studies of the Physical Phenomena of Nature

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...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 trembling...
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The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 578 pages
...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...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...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from ..., Volume 1

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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Cyclopedia of English Literature: a Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...it the wind that moaneth bleak t There is not wind enough in the air To move away the ringlet curl His vigorous remedy displayed The power of art without...And lonely want retired to die. No summons mocked b skr. Hush, beating heart of Christabel ! Jesu Maria shield her well 1 She foldeth her arms beneath...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Volume 50

1851 - 406 pages
...mentioned that the revolving hemispheres are seldom or never at rest ; when not a leaf is stirring, 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...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the ..., Volume 50

1851 - 438 pages
...mentioned that the revolving hemispheres are seldom or never at rest ; when not a leaf is stirring, when " There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of ite clan, That dances ns oft as dance it can, Hanging BO light and hanging so high On lie topmost twig...
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