 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
 | Words - 1866 - 368 pages
...after it was heard no more. Wordsworth. LINES WRITTEN IN MARCH. 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... | |
 | Richard Soule, William Adolphus Wheeler - 1867 - 116 pages
...hundred. Eight hundred. Nine hundred. One thousand. Two thousand. Three thousand. LINES WEITTEN IN MARCH. 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... | |
 | 1868 - 220 pages
...dauntless in war, Have ye e'er heard of gallant Like young Lochinvar? Sir Walter Scott. SPRING-TIME. HE 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;... | |
 | Woodland - 1868 - 186 pages
...pleasant things Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. SPRING. HE 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;... | |
 | William Rushton - 1869 - 352 pages
...the real antiquity. 9. No work is a disgrace ; the true disgrace is idleness. 2. Copulative. 28. 1. The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, And at every gust the dead leaves fall. 2. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side. 3. Jason... | |
 | William Stewart Ross - 1870 - 72 pages
...speaking. — Campbell. The day is cold and dark and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, And at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary. — Longfellow. With slow and steady step there came A lady through... | |
 | 1896 - 342 pages
...New England wrote: " The day is cold and dark and dreary, It raiiiB, and the winds are never weary ; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, / -- " And at every gust' the dead leave* fall, And the day is dark and <treafy." " Almost every stanza is. '^redolent wjth ithe dieerlcFs... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...— For winds and storms, whose sullen roar Forbade my steps to rove. PiHKRB RONSARD (French). MARCH. all weetlesse of the wretched stormes In which his...list; Till, being waked with these loud alarmes, He oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising... | |
 | Hymns - 1871 - 330 pages
...thee had not been, These busy engines had not moved, No whirling wheels been seen ! Mrs. E. MARCH. 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... | |
 | Child - 1871 - 328 pages
...youth I remember'd my God, And He hath not forgotten my age." . WRITTEN iv MARCH. WRITTEN IN MARCH. 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... | |
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