I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. Public Speaking Today: A High School Manual - Page 93by Frank Cummins Lockwood, Clarence De Witt Thorpe - 1921 - 264 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1813 - 410 pages
...Pray for their souls who died for love, For Love shall still be lord of all! THE BROOK. LORD TENNYSON. I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...sparkle out among the fern To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half... | |
| 1855 - 724 pages
...which we here insert, placing the detached lines together : — 1 come from Imimts of coot and hem, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern. To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 176 pages
...babbling brook," says Edmund in his rhyme, " Whence come you ? " and the brook, why not ? replies. I come from haunts of coot and hern , I make a sudden...sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, Till last... | |
| 1855 - 606 pages
...one from " The Brook," which is extremely original and striking, as well as musically perfect : — " I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. " By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half... | |
| 1855 - 802 pages
...genius is never' more evident than when dealing with common things. We quote & stanza or two : — " I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. " By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1855 - 522 pages
...We quote, in a connected form, what is unmistakeably the gem of all that is new in the book : — " I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. " By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 180 pages
...babbling brook," says Edmund in his rhyme, " Whence come you ? " and the brook, why not ? replies. I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, Till last... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 180 pages
...babbling brook," says Edmund in his rhyme, " Whence come you ? " and the brook, why not ? replies. I como from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally...sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, Till last... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1855 - 440 pages
...death inwoven here With dear love's tie, makes love himself more dear." THE RIVULET. I COME from the haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And...sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or sKp between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 436 pages
...his rhyme, "Whence come you?" and the brook, why not? replies. I come from haunts of coot and hem, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, Till last... | |
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