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 Coward (of Carlisle) - 1874 - 254 pages
...the top of the highest hills. William finished his verses before we got to the foot of Kirkstone."] 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,... | |
| Charles Joseph S. Dawe - 1876 - 152 pages
...of a ball, and so the ship when it has gone a few miles dips out of sight. LINES WRITTEN 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... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 pages
...winds and storms, whose sullen roar Forbade my steps to rove. From the French of PIERRE RONSARD. 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... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 290 pages
...WRITTEN IN MARCH, WHILE BESTING ON THE BRIDGE AT THE FOOT OP BROTHERS* WATEB. rTlHE cock is crowing, J- The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The...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;... | |
| Samuel Manning - 1880 - 260 pages
...of thy heavenly birth, As here thy flowers and birds press on to bloom and sing. A MORNING IN MARCH. 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,... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 618 pages
...storms, whose sullen roar Forbade my steps to rove. From the Trench of PIERRE RONSARD. MARCH. TIIK cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small...lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; Tlie oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 294 pages
...WRITTEN IN MARCH, WHILE RESTING ON THE BRIDGE AT THE FOOT OP BBOTHEBs' WATER. rFHE cock is crowing, -I- The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The...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;... | |
| 1877 - 456 pages
...Bring forth May flowers." Wordsworth has a litlle poem about March, of which some lines run thus : " The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising, — There arc forty feeding like one." That is March... | |
| William Angus Knight, William Wordsworth - 1878 - 284 pages
...The Daffodils was composed, he wrote the following, while resting at the foot of Brothers 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... | |
| William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 280 pages
...thought of this piece with that of Lesson I., on " The Whistle." Each conveys a meral. XXXV.— MARCH. 1. 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... | |
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