 I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow. I chatter, chatter,...  New National First [-fifth] Reader - Page 287by Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - 1884 - 480 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1878 - 262 pages
...bridge, It has more ivy ; there the river ; and there Stands Philip's farm where brook and river meet. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles,...bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow.... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - 1878 - 444 pages
...of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. 3. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles,...bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. 4. With many a curve my banks I fret, By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 286 pages
...hnrry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. 3. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles;...bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. 4. I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river; For men may come and men may go, But I... | |
 | James De Mille - 1878 - 584 pages
...sounds of a flowing brook rrj suggested in a well-known poem, from which the following is an extract : " I chatter over stony ways In little sharps and trebles; I bubble into eddying bays, I babble at the pebbles. " I chatter, chatter, as I go To join the brimming river ; For men may come, and men... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1878 - 688 pages
...Philip's farm where brook and river meet. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, 1 bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a (airy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow.... | |
 | Joseph Wadsworth Keene - 1879 - 256 pages
...in martial strain: His banner led the spears no more amid the hills of Spain. THE BROOK. TENNYSON. I COME from haunts of coot and hern ; I make a sudden...bays ; I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret, By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow.... | |
 | Sean O'Casey - 1986 - 84 pages
...men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever. Only one more verse, only one more river to cross. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles,...bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. Sharps an' threbles—what do they mean? I know that to be sharp means to have an edge on anything... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 628 pages
...bridge, It has more ivy ; there the river ; and there Stands Philip's farm where brook and river meet. J chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles,...bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow.... | |
 | 1982 - 348 pages
...and hern; I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley . By thirsty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By...bays , I babble on the pebbles . With many a curve my banks I fret , By many a field and fallow , And many a fairy foreland set With willow -weed and mallow.... | |
 | Virgil - 1982 - 164 pages
...rather obvious example: in Tennyson's poem The Brook the brook's reply is a study in such virtuosity: I chatter over stony ways In little sharps and trebles....bubble into eddying bays. I babble on the pebbles . . . When Virgil came to describe a farmer making a runnel (i. 108) he took his cue from a very expressive... | |
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