 There is no rhyme that is half so sweet As the song of the wind in the rippling wheat; There is no metre that's half so fine As the lilt of the brook under rock and vine; And the loveliest lyric I ever heard Was the wildwood strain of a forest bird.  The South Atlantic Quarterly - Page 380edited by - 1906Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American poetry - 1900 - 954 pages
...rippling wheat; There is no metre that 's half so fine As the lilt of the brook under rock and vine; And the loveliest lyric I ever heard Was the wildwood strain of a forest bird. — If the wind and the brook and the bird would teach My heart their beautiful parts of speech, And... | |
 | Andrew Carpenter Wheeler, J. P. Mowbray - Natural history - 1901 - 338 pages
...rippling wheat. There is no metre that's half so fine As the lilt of the brook under rock and vine, And the loveliest lyric I ever heard Was the wild-wood strain of a forest bird. ' I don't know that young man, — his poetry proclaims him to be young, — but if ever he settles... | |
 | Mary Minerva Barrows - Cheerfulness - 1905 - 208 pages
...rippling wheat; There is no metre that's half so fine As the lilt of the brook under rock and vine; And the loveliest lyric I ever heard Was the wildwood strain of a forest bird. Madison Cawein. Simple hearts put all the history and customs of this world behind them, and play their... | |
 | Recitations - 1910 - 528 pages
...rippling wheat ; There is no metre that's half so fine As the lilt of the brook under rock and vine: And the loveliest lyric I ever heard Was the wildwood strain of a forest bird." Public Speaking in Colleges. I have dwelt upon these elements which lead to mistakes in teaching literature... | |
 | Readers - 1910 - 624 pages
...rippling wheat ; There is no metre that's half so fine As the lilt of the brook under rock and vine: And the loveliest lyric I ever heard Was the wildwood strain of a forest bird." Public Speaking in Colleges. I have dwelt upon these elements which lead to mistakes in teaching literature... | |
 | Frances Eggleston Blodgett, Andrew Burr Blodgett - Readers - 1910 - 232 pages
...rippling wheat ; There is no meter that 's half so fine 10 As the lilt of the brook under rock and vine ; And the loveliest lyric I ever heard Was the wildwood strain of a forest bird. 175 THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENCHANTED BARK MIGUEL DE CEKV ANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES (me gal' da ser van'te.s),... | |
 | James William Searson, George Ellsworth Martin - Readers - 1912 - 380 pages
...rippling wheat ; There is no meter that's half so fine As the lilt of the brook under rock and vine; And the loveliest lyric I ever heard Was the wildwood strain of a forest bird. — Madison Cawein. BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE CHARLES WOLFE THE author, an Irish scholar and admirer... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - Agricultural colleges - 1913 - 958 pages
...rippling wheat; There Is no meter that's half so line As the Hit of the brook under rock and vine ; And the loveliest lyric I ever heard Was the wildwood strain of a forest bird. — MADISON CAWMW. THE OAK. A song to the oak, The brave old oak, Who hath ruled in the greenwood long... | |
 | Education - 1913 - 678 pages
...rippling wheat; There is no meter that's half so fine As the lilt of the brook under rock and vine; And the loveliest lyric I ever heard Was the wildwood strain of a forest bird. — MADISON CAWEIS. THE OAK. A oonj; to tho oak. The brave old oak, Who hath ruled in the greenwood... | |
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