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
| Henry Thomas Liddell Earl of Ravensworth - 1865 - 182 pages
...cubilia, Et hinc et inde Phœbi Jubar refractum miror inter humidas arenas. 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 bloflom failing, And here and there a lufty trout, And here... | |
| Emma Marshall - 1865 - 218 pages
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| Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 pages
...his rhyme, " Whence come you?" and the brook, why not? replies. I come from haunts of coot and hern, 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 forever. ' Poor lad, he died at Florence, quite worn out,... | |
| James Stuart Laurie - 1866 - 236 pages
...anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought ! Longfellow THE BROOK. I COME from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern,...down, Or slip between the ridges ; By twenty thorps, fa little town, And half a hundred bridges. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles,... | |
| 1884 - 492 pages
...sally. And sparkle out among the fera. To bicker down the valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or Blip between the ridges; By twenty thorps, a little town,...And half a hundred bridges. Till last by Philip's mill I flow To Join the brimming river: For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever. I chatter... | |
| Moxon Edward and co - 208 pages
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| John Bascom - 1867 - 278 pages
...blood, And echo there, whatever is asked her, answers ' Death.' " " I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley." " We parted : sweetly gleamed the stars, And sweet the vapor-braided blue, Low breezes fanned the belfry... | |
| Charles Bilton - 1868 - 216 pages
.... Wordsworth, W. . . 1770-1850 BEADING BOOK N° V. THE BROOK. I COME from haunts of coot and hern. 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 1 go on for ever. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1868 - 520 pages
...rhyme, " Whence come you ? " and the brook, why not ? replies. I come from haunts of coot and hern, 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 forever. ' Poor lad, he died at Florence, quite worn out,... | |
| Samuel Cox - 1867 - 348 pages
...little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. 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 steal by lawns and grassy plots, I slide by hazel covers ; I move the sweet forget-me-nots That grow... | |
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