 It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or...  Ingalls of Kansas: A Character Study - Page 3by William Elsey Connelley - 1909 - 232 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Terrence Ortwein, Terry Ortwein - 2011 - 40 pages
...Stupid lines? Romeo And Juliet is one of the most beautiful dramas ever written. CHRIS. Yeh, yeh, yeh. "Night's candles are burnt out and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain top" is stupid. Why doesn't he just say it's morning. MAGGIE. It's morning. enjoyed it, but the birds... | |
 | John Lukacs - 1994 - 242 pages
...spectacle compared to this. What a pity that Shakespeare did not see it! In Romeo and Juliet he wrote: "Night's candles are burnt out and jocund day / Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain top." These mountains are not misty. They are aflame with the sun — rising behind, then pouring red... | |
 | Richard Courtney - 1995 - 274 pages
...morn; No nightingale. Look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder East. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. (6-10) Here is another form of lyric, the "aubade," a song sung at dawn. Its serene liquid sound is... | |
 | James Weldon Johnson - 1995 - 330 pages
...wonderful imagery in these two brief lines from "Romeo and Juliet," describing the breaking of day: Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. Listen to the marital trumpeting in the following lines from "Henry V": O for a Muse of fire, that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...morn, No nightingale: look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east: appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not re I must be gone and live, or stay and die. JULIET. Yond light is not day-light, I know it, I: It i •... | |
 | Joe Calarco - 1999 - 84 pages
...morn, No nightingale. Look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. I must be gone and live, or stay and die. (Student 1 again goes to leave and is stopped by Student... | |
 | Kenneth Koch - 1999 - 324 pages
...morn; No nightingale. Look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder East. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. I must be gone and live, or stay and die. Juliet. Yond light is not daylight; I know it, I. It is some... | |
 | Caleen Sinnette Jennings - 1999 - 104 pages
...morn, No nightingale: look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east: Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops: I must be gone and live, or stay and die. JULIET (clings to ROMEO passionately). Yon light is not daylight,... | |
 | Jennifer Mulherin - 2001 - 40 pages
...morn, No nightingale: look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east: Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops: Act in Scv 18 Romeo's and Juliet's farewell Rom. Farewell, farewell! one kiss, and III descend. Jul... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 656 pages
...Rom.&Jul., II, iii, i; 'look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east: Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.' — Ibid., III, v, 7; 'yon gray lines That fret the clouds are messengers of day.' — Jul. CaS., II,... | |
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