| 1855 - 682 pages
...scattered throughout the idyl, we bring together here : " I como from haunts of coot and hern, I nmke n sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker...valley. " By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between me ridgce, By twenty thorpe, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. "Till last by Philip's farm... | |
| 1855 - 714 pages
...together here : " I come from haunts of coot and hern, 1 make a sudden sally And sparkle out among tho fern, To bicker down a valley. " By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between tho ridges, By twcuty thorps, a littlo town, And half a hundred bridges. rm I flow "Till last by Philip's... | |
| 1855 - 684 pages
...song of tho brook, of which the stanzas are scattered throughout the idyl, wo bring together here : " I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And spnrkle out among the fern, To oicker down a valley. " By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between... | |
| Septimus Sears - 1866 - 756 pages
...forgive him, and beg that he may not be punished for my sake." THE BROOK. BY ALFRED TEHNY8OK, I COMB from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally,...sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirsty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a... | |
| 1856 - 796 pages
...liisrlmiu-, 14 Whence come you?" and the brook, why not? replie i. Т come from haunts of coot and hern, 1 make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hill* I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges. By twenty thorp«, a Huh? town, And half a hundred... | |
| Thomas Crampton - 1858 - 264 pages
...mark in a pattern. sown. fish. Shallow, a place with little Shingly, having small round depth. stones. I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. Till lost by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come, and men may go, But I go... | |
| Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...they bend their tops To the numberless beating drops Of the incessant rain. LONGFELLOW. THE SONG OF THE BROOK. I come from haunts of coot and hern, I...sparkle out among the fern To bicker down a valley. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles ; I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the... | |
| Thomas Starr King - 1859 - 438 pages
...that the brook did which Tennyson has thus translated ? I come from hnunts of coot and hern, I make n 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 twenty thorps, a little town, And half a... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 188 pages
...babbling brook," says Edmund in his rhyme, " Whence come you ? " and the brook, why not 1 replies. I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally Anil sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pages
...babbling brook,' says Edmund in his rhyme, ' Whence come you ? ' and the brook, why not ? replies. I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, Till la?t by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But... | |
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