 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.  Littell's Living Age - Page 1341855Full view - About this book
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1872 - 418 pages
...it for his need. JOHN BROWX, MD XXIV.— THE BROOK. i. COME from haunts of coot and hern, I make n sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. n. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges; By twenty thorps, a little town, And half... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1873 - 314 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,...Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever. " Poor lad, he died at Florence, quite worn out,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 pages
...OF THE BROOK. I COME from haunts of coot and hern : I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among tbe hy name ; And for that name, which is no part of thee,...never will be Romeo. JUL. What man art thou, that, men may come and men may go, But I go on forever. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles,... | |
 | William Bedell Stanford - 1873 - 122 pages
...will their names be written. ALFRED TENNYSON. 49FROM "THE BROOK," I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern,...By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred ridges. Till last by Philip's farm I flow, To join the brimming river, For men may come, and men may... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland sot With willow-weed and mallow. I chatter, chatter, as IP <. wind about, and in and out, AVith here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here... | |
 | English poetry - 1873 - 390 pages
...field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow- weed and mallow. I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river ; For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever. I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here... | |
 | Public school series - 1873 - 168 pages
...field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow. I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come, and men may go, But I go on for ever. I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here... | |
 | James Ridgway - 1873 - 216 pages
...skimming swallows; I make the netted sunbeams danco Against my sandy shallows. I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river: For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever. I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1873 - 552 pages
...a-field to brooks and bowers." — CHURCHILL.] X 1 IRrJFjl COME from haunts of coot and hern, IE? VJ ^ make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern,...bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, SUNS." — TENNYS< 3 . Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1873 - 528 pages
...his rhyme, Whence come you ? ' and the brook, why not ? replies. I come from haunts of coot and herr, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hnrry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges.... | |
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