 The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising ; There are forty...  new monthly magazine - Page 390by william harrison ainsworth - 1857Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ;. The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising ; There are forty feeding like one ! 45 Like an army defeated The Snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top «f the bare hill... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 258 pages
...glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising ; There are forty feeding like one ? Like an army defeated The Snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising ; There are forty feeding like one ! XX. Like au army defeated The Snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill;... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising ; There are forty feeding like one ! Like an army defeated The Snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 372 pages
...glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising ; There are forty feeding like one ! i 5 Like an army defeated The Snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising ; There are forty feeding like one ! Like an army defeated The Snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 452 pages
...glitter. The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest, Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising, There are forty feeding like one. Like an army defeated, The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill, On the top of the bare hill."... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1833 - 440 pages
...glitter. The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest, Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising, There are forty feeding like one. Like an army defeated, The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill, On the top of the bare hill."... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1835 - 446 pages
...glitter. The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest, Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising, There are forty feeding like one. Like an army defeated, The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill, On the top of the bare hill."... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 602 pages
...impart to restless humanity Wordsworth's characteristic of the still monotony of the pasture, where " The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising; There are forty feeding like one." They may be disciplined to apply the spade uniformly and unvaryingly, as the ox or the horse drags... | |
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