 The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising; There are forty feeding...  Essentials of English Grammar: For the Use of Schools - Page 203by William Dwight Whitney - 1877 - 260 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1835 - 446 pages
...out of the nursery, say to such namby-pamby as " Lines written at the Foot of Brother's Bridge ? " " The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small...doth glitter. The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest, Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 426 pages
...them more than Wordsworth has done, I must believe. The very measure of such verses as these — " The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing ; The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter;" and, " Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 414 pages
...from them more than Wordsworth has done, I must believe. The very measure of such verses as these— " The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing; The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter;" and, " Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...dissatisfied. I806. WRITTEN IN MARCH, WHILE RESTING ON THR BRIDOB AT THE FOOT ОP BROTHER'S WATER. THE Cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small...doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising... | |
 | Spring flowers, S. P. - 1849 - 178 pages
...— I pity and I mourn; But the strpiiF.ME hath fashion 'd all, And, oh ! I dare not scorn. MARCH: The Cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green fields sleep in the sun. The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest; The cattle are grazing,... | |
 | John Wright (of Nottingham.) - 1851 - 388 pages
...a Pastoral Poem." (11) May tell us with becoming pride, That " the green field sleeps in the sun." The Cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small...doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 506 pages
...entitled thus : ' WRITTEN IN MARCH, 1 WHILE RESTING ON THE BRIDGE AT THE FOOT OF BROTHER'S WATER. ' The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small...doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun,' fcc. &c. (Vol. ii. p. 109.) * [This little poem, called the Glumworm, consisting of five stanzas, was... | |
 | 1852 - 596 pages
...verdure, and unnumbered flowers, The negligence of nature, wide and wild." Wordsworth is as happy: "The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, Tfu green field sleepy in the гм»; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest; The cattle... | |
 | Forget-Me-Not, Forget-me-not - 1853 - 138 pages
...Hearing thee, or else some other, Wniin in WHILE RESTING OK THE BRIDGE AT THE FOOT OF BROTHER'S WATER. The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small...doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising;... | |
 | Robert Connel - 1853 - 210 pages
...are made of silver ? How do the rich USB it? Where are the richest silver mines? WRITTEN IN MARCH. The cock is crowing, the stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, the lakes now glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest are at work with the... | |
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