 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.  The first (-sixth) 'Standard' reader - Page 140by James Stuart Laurie - 1863Full view - About this book
 | Parodies - 1813 - 410 pages
...Pray for their souls who died for love, For Love shall still be lord of all! THE BROOK. LORD TENNYSON. I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the... | |
 | 1876 - 396 pages
...living poets stood one fine day watching such a stream, he heard it singing, and this was its song : 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... | |
 | 1878 - 396 pages
...little sharps and trebles, , I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. " I chatter-chatter as I flow To join the brimming river ; For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever. " I steal by lawns and grassy plots, I slide by hazel covers ; I move the sweet forget-me-nots That grow... | |
 | Ireland - 1855 - 724 pages
...which we here insert, placing the detached lines together : — 1 come from Imimts of coot and hem, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern....Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may coma and men may go,J But 1 go on for evw. i I chatter over stony ways, In little shnrps and... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1855 - 522 pages
...We quote, in a connected form, what is unmistakeably the gem of all that is new in the book : — " I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...may come and men may go, But I go on for ever. "I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 1855 - 180 pages
...O babbling brook," says Edmund in his rhyme, " Whence come you? " and the brook, why not ? replies. I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever. ' Poor lad, he died at Florence, quite worn out,... | |
 | 1855 - 606 pages
...one from " The Brook," which is extremely original and striking, as well as musically perfect : — " I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...a hundred bridges. " Till last by Philip's farm I How, To join the brimming river, For men may come, and men may go, But I go on for ever. " I chatter... | |
 | 1855 - 802 pages
...genius is never' more evident than when dealing with common things. We quote & stanza or two : — " I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. , " I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1855 - 176 pages
...babbling brook," says Edmund in his rhyme, " Whence come you ? " and the brook, why not ? replies. I come from haunts of coot and hern , I make a sudden...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 - English poetry - 1855 - 180 pages
...babbling brook," says Edmund in his rhyme, " Whence come you ? " and the brook, why not ? replies. I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden...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... | |
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