 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.  The first (-sixth) 'Standard' reader - Page 140by James Stuart Laurie - 1863Full view - About this book
 | 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 Bedell Stanford - 1873 - 122 pages
...brighter scroll of heaven is read, There will their names be written. ALFRED TENNYSON. 49FROM "THE BROOK," I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...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... | |
 | American poetry - 1873 - 296 pages
...stars of God ! EDUAHD MOEKIKE (German). Translation of JAMES CI.ARENCE MA SCAN. SONG OF THE BROOK. I COME from haunts of coot and hern ; I make a sudden...sparkle out among the fern. To bicker down a valley. U4 By thirty hills I hurry clown, Or slip between the ridges : By twenty thorps, a little town, And... | |
 | 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 - Poetry - 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.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1873 - 906 pages
...scorn to own ?) A tutelar fond voiee, a saviour tone of love. CHARLES TENNYSON. SONG OF THE BROOK. lled, Retain that dear perfection which he owes, Without that title. — Romeo, d tbe fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 628 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...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,... | |
 | Poetry - 1982 - 348 pages
...Work, and give, and pray; oh, Christian, Go! They die, they die, they die! Grace Howard 526. THE BROOK I come from haunts of coot and hern; I make a sudden...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... | |
 | Bill Moore - Cooking - 1987 - 180 pages
...eighteenth and nineteenth centuries they were very apt to murmur. Another word, bicker, is unusual: I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...sparkle, out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Bicker, its sound, and the suggestion of chattering, possibly arguing and pushing... | |
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