 | 1861 - 532 pages
...washing in the reeds, And the wild water lapping on the crag." In " The Brook," an idyll, we find, — " I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles...bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles." These selections are made at random, and could easily be multiplied, for they lie throughout Mr. Tennyson's... | |
 | 1860 - 452 pages
...on forever. In the joyance of an ever renewing youth, it may sing the song of the merry brook — " I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles,...bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. GRAND LODGE OF HANOVER. 349 1 chatter, chatter as 1 flow To join the brimming river, For men may come,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1860 - 670 pages
...and "tinkling rivulet,"** and the " babbling brook's" autobiographic song begins, in mimetic diction, I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles.ft A critical point it is, in Mr. Barbara's " Hand of Glory" legend, when— hush! All is silent!... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pages
...bridge, It has more ivy ; there the river ; and there Stands Philip's farm where brook and river meet. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles,...fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow. I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pages
...bridge, It has more ivy ; there the river ; and there Stands Philip's farm where brook and river meet. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles,...curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And m;iny a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow. I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1861 - 550 pages
...down, Or slip between the ridges; By twenty thorps,* a little town, And half a hundred bridges; S. I chatter over stony ways In little sharps and trebles,...bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. 4. And out again I curve and flow, To join the brimming river ; For men may come, and men may go, But... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1862 - 698 pages
...bridge, It has more ivy ; there the river ; and there Stands Philip's farm where brook and river meet. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles,...fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow. I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 372 pages
...hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty mills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges ; By twenty...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... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - 1862 - 372 pages
...Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come, and men may go, But I go on forever. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles,...bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my bank I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow.... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1862 - 558 pages
...Or slip between the ridges ; By twenty thorp.-*,1 a little town, And half a hundred bridges ; 3. 1 chatter over stony ways In little sharps and trebles,...bubble Into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. 4 And out again I curve and flow, To join the brimming river ; For men may come, and men may go, But... | |
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I CHATTER over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow. 
