...crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green fields sleep in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with...retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill ; ' The ploughboy is whooping — anon — anon ! There's joy on the mountains ; There's...

...From the French of PIERRE RONSARD. MARCH. THE cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps...heads never raising ; There are forty feeding like one ? And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill ; The plowboy is whooping — anon — anon ! There...

...gone beyond recall. We feel this lack in Wordsworth all the more keenly if we compare such verses as " Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill," with Goethe's exquisite Ueber alien Gipfeln ist Ruh, in which the lines (as if shaken down...

...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...

...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...

...Wordsworth's kleinem Gedichte 'Written in March' (Poetical Works, Moxon, 1850, 6 vols, II, 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)...

...gone beyond recall. We feel this lack in Wordsworth all the more keenly if we compare such verses as " Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated And now doth fare ill Oii the top of the bare hill," with Goethe's exquisite Ueber alien Gipfeln ist Ruh, in which the lines...

...BRIDGE AT THE FOOT OP BBOTHEBs' WATER. rFHE cock is crowing, -I- The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps...retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The ploughboy is whooping—anou—anon There 's joy in the mountains; There 's life in...

...is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; Tlie oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest...retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare liill ; The plowboy is whooping — anon — anon ! There 's joy on the mountains ; There 's life...

...blue, The lark becomes a sightless song. The cock is crowing; the stream is flowing; The small birds twitter; the lake doth glitter; The green field sleeps in the sun. The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, And at every gust the dead leaves fall. The people are like...