 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 feeding...  Recitations for infant schools - Page 57by Wilhelmina Lydia Rooper - 1884Full view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1877 - 290 pages
...WRITTEN IN MARCH, WHILE BESTING ON THE BRIDGE AT THE FOOT OP BROTHERS* WATEB. rTlHE cock is crowing, J- The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The...forty feeding like one! Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The ploughboy is whooping — anon... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...winds and storms, whose sullen roar Forbade my steps to rove. From the French of PIERRE RONSARD. MARCH. THE cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small...heads never raising ; There are forty feeding like one ? And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill ; The plowboy is whooping — anon — anon ! There... | |
 | Samuel Manning - English poetry - 1880 - 260 pages
...of thy heavenly birth, As here thy flowers and birds press on to bloom and sing. A MORNING IN MARCH. cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green fields sleep in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1876 - 596 pages
...by Wordsworth, I may notice an effect of iteration daily exhibited in the habits of cattle : — " The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising , There are forty feeding like one." Now, merely as a fact, and if it were nothing more, this characteristic appearance in the habits of... | |
 | 1876 - 384 pages
...Wordsworth's kleinem Gedichte 'Written in March' (Poetical Works, Moxon, 1850, 6 vols, II, 110) heisst es: The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising; There are forty feeding like one. Die bekannte Ballade 'Barbara Fritchie' von Whittier (Complete Poetical Works, Boston, 1873 p. 270)... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Criticism - 1876 - 590 pages
...by Wordsworth, I may notice an effect of iteration daily exhibited in the habits of cattle : — " The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising , There are forty feeding like one." Now, merely as a fact, and if it were nothing more, this characteristic appearance in the habits of... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 294 pages
...WRITTEN IN MARCH, WHILE RESTING ON THE BRIDGE AT THE FOOT OP BBOTHEBs' WATER. rFHE cock is crowing, -I- The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The...forty feeding like one! Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The ploughboy is whooping—anou—anon... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - English language - 1877 - 298 pages
...distance takes a lovelier hne ; And, drowned in yonder living blue, The lark becomes a sightless song. The cock is crowing; the stream is flowing; The small...doth glitter; The green field sleeps in the sun. The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, And at every gust the dead leaves fall, The people are like... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 618 pages
...storms, whose sullen roar Forbade my steps to rove. From the Trench of PIERRE RONSARD. MARCH. TIIK cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small...lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; Tlie oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never... | |
 | Children's literature - 1877 - 456 pages
...Bring forth May flowers." Wordsworth has a litlle poem about March, of which some lines run thus : " The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising, — There arc forty feeding like one." That is March... | |
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