 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
 | Helen A Hertz - 1879 - 292 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... | |
 | Karl Elze - English drama - 1880 - 534 pages
...Wordsworth's little poem 'Written in March' (Poetical Works, Moxon, 1850, 6 vols, II, no) we read: — The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising; There are forty feeding like one. The well-known ballad 'Barbara Frietchie' by Mr JG Whittier (Completo Poetical Works, Koston, 1879,... | |
 | Readers and speakers - 1880 - 296 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 l On the top of the bare hill... | |
 | Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, William Carew Hazlitt - 1880 - 462 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... | |
 | New national reading books - 1880 - 140 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 bare hill... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1880 - 330 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 array defeated The snow hath retreated^ And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1880 - 354 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 hare hill... | |
 | Henry Hall Dixon - 1880 - 490 pages
...terrace, with the white dots not far below the sky-line, which tell of its famous " cattle." There " They are grazing, their heads never raising — There are forty feeding like one," and we have to discard at the first glance every wildbull-thought for Wordsworth's milder rhymes. Our... | |
 | Anna Callender Brackett - American poetry - 1881 - 348 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 - 1881 - 732 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... | |
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