 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.  Child Life: A Collection of Poems - Page 97edited by - 1872 - 263 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1871 - 314 pages
...this which now I learn, Has given all my fai th a turn 1 Burn, you glossy heretic, burn, Burn, burn. THE BROOK. I COME from haunts of coot and hern, I...between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 498 pages
...his rhyme, Whence come you ? ' and the brook, why npt? replies. I come from haunts of coot and hen I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern,...thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men ma ay co But... | |
 | Bands of hope - 1868 - 224 pages
...to-night Lesa work for better wage ; Then coma and join with us, boys, These evilii to assuage. THE BEOOK. I COME from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or sb'p between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. I chatter over... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...who shall scorn to own Í) A tutelar fond voice, a saviour tone of love. CHARLES TENNYSON. SONG OF at earth ever gave, Its t To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps,... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 328 pages
...He enters through the river-gate, Borne by the joyous crowd. ALFEED TENNYSON, POET LAUKEATE. 1809— The Brook. I COME from haunts of coot and hern, I...thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come, and men may go, But... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...who shall scorn to own ?) A tutelar foud voice, a saviour tone of love. CHARLES .TENNYSON. SONG OF nd child Till last by Philip's farm 1 flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1872 - 186 pages
...a century dead ; Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. THE BROOK. COME from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But... | |
 | Alfonzo Gardiner - 1872 - 104 pages
...yards ? Lesson 79.— Thursday.— Grammar. Learn and Write. Ex. 18. Parse as fully as you can. — I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. Ex. 19. Write the plurals of goose, body, wolf, sheaf, valley, brush, navy, hoof, moss. Lesson 80.—... | |
 | John Bascom - History - 1872 - 276 pages
...ledges drip with a silent horror of blood, And echo there, whatever is asked her, answers * Death.' " "I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley." "We parted: sweetly gleamed the stars, And sweet the vapor-braided blue, Low breezes fanned the belfry... | |
 | Florence Wilford - 1872 - 132 pages
..." The Brook," that one of the young ladies at the " seminary " was learning ; and the verses — " I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...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... | |
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