 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
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1863 - 216 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 ! 2. Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the hill ;... | |
 | 302 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 ;... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 424 pages
...arrested 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... | |
 | Months - English poetry - 1864 - 262 pages
...glitter, The green fields sleep in the sun ; The oldest and youngesi 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... | |
 | Charles Knight - Booksellers and bookselling - 1865 - 348 pages
...lingers in my memory, and suggests a town parallel : — " The green field sleeps in the sun : » * * » The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising : There are forty feeding like one ! " Edward Dilly, a leading spirit in the trade, has described, in a letter to Boswell, how "a meeting... | |
 | 1876 - 378 pages
...Wordsworth's kleinem Gedichte 'Written in March' (Poetical Works, Moxon, 1850, 6 vols, H, 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)... | |
 | Children in literature - 1865 - 276 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 hill; The plough-boy... | |
 | Thomas Simpson Birkby - 1865 - 106 pages
...glitter, The green fields sleep in the cun. The oldest and the 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; The... | |
 | 1865 - 448 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... | |
 | Richard Soule, William Adolphus Wheeler - Readers - 1866 - 114 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. Cike an arms Stye snoto tyatty rctreateli, 2lno iiott) foot!l fare ill ©n tlje top of % bare tyUl... | |
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