 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - Ballads - 1894 - 338 pages
...aye, by shine and shower, Sixteen short howls, not over loud : Some say, she sees my lady's shroud. Is the night chilly and dark ? The night is chilly, but...small and dull. The night is chill, the cloud is gray : 'Tis a month before the month of May, And the Spring comes slowly up this way. The lovely lady, Christabel,... | |
 | James Logie Robertson - English literature - 1894 - 388 pages
...cock, How drowsily it crew. . . . The night is chilly, but not dark. The thin gray cloud is spread 011 high, It covers but not hides the sky. The moon is...small and dull. The night is chill, the cloud is gray : 'Tis a mouth before the month of May, And the Spring comes slowly up this way. . . . The night is... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1894 - 862 pages
...the eye Traces no spot, in which the heart maj icad History and piophecy . . . .* •The tliin grey cloud is spread on high, It covers but not hides the...the full; And yet she looks both small and dull;* m this, which has a touch of' romantic ' weirdness— 'Nought was green upon the oak But mo?s and rarest... | |
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - Ballads - 1894 - 320 pages
...aye, by shine and shower, Sixteen short howls, not over loud : Some say, she sees my lady's shroud. Is the night chilly and dark ? The night is chilly, but...is spread on high, It covers but not hides the sky. 84 -^ Popular British Ballads The moon is behind, and at the full ; And yet she looks both small and... | |
 | Edward Dowden - Literature - 1895 - 472 pages
...Wordsworth, " the sole remaining leaf, danced round and round like a rag blown by the wind." " The thin grey cloud is spread on high, It covers, but not hides...the full ; And yet she looks both small and dull." So the poem. And Dorothy Wordsworth, noticing also the apparent diminution of the moon behind a fleecy... | |
 | American poetry - 1923 - 748 pages
...aye, by shine and shower, Sixteen short howls, not over loud ; Some say, she sees my lady's shroud. Is the night chilly and dark? The night is chilly, but...small and dull. The night is chill, the cloud is gray: 'Tis a month before the month of May, And the Spring comes slowly up this way. The lovely lady, Christabel,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1920 - 388 pages
...sees my lady's shroud. Is the night chilly and dark? The night is chilly, but not dark. The thin grey cloud is spread on high, It covers but not hides the...small and dull. The night is chill, the cloud is gray: 'Tis-a month before the month of May, And the Spring comes slowly up this way.... The lady sprang up... | |
 | Walter Pater - Education - 1982 - 304 pages
...indifference to actual colour and form and process, but such minute realism as this — The thin grey cloud is spread on high, It covers but not hides the...at the full; And yet she looks both small and dull; or this, which has a touch of "romantic" weirdness — Nought was green upon the oak But moss and rarest... | |
 | D.A. Stansfield - Biography & Autobiography - 1984 - 338 pages
...everything is transmuted, just as the conventional "pale-faced moon" is replaced by, The thin grey cloud is spread on high It covers but not hides the...at the full And yet she looks both small and dull. 30 Coleridge himself, writing of the genesis of Christabel, claimed, "there are such things as fountains... | |
 | Bill Moore - Cooking - 1987 - 180 pages
...know. . Coleridge was great at creating atmosphere: The night is chilly, but not dark. The thin grey cloud is spread on high, It covers, but not hides...both small and dull. The night is chill, the cloud is grey; 'Tis a month before the month of May, And the spring comes slowly up this way. That last line... | |
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Is the night chilly and dark? The night is chilly, but not dark. The thin gray cloud is spread on high, It covers but not hides the sky. The moon is behind, and at the full ; And yet she looks both small and dull. 
