By Castle and River: Auburn

The Brook

By: Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)

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.

Till last by 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,
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.

I chatter, chatter, as I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.

I wind about, and in and out,
with here a blossom sailing,
And here and there a lusty trout,
And here and there a grayling,

And here and there a foamy flake
Upon me, as I travel
With many a silver water-break
Above the golden gravel,

And draw them all along, and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.

I steal by lawns and grassy plots,
I slide by hazel covers;
I move the sweet forget-me-nots
That grow for happy lovers.

I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,
Among my skimming swallows;
I make the netted sunbeam dance
Against my sandy shallows.

I murmur under moon and stars
In brambly wildernesses;
I linger by my shingly bars;
I loiter round my cresses;

And out again I curve and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Auburn

Making Music, by Edward Robert Hughes

This post is for the dear ~A.K.~

Beauty in Profile , by Jean-Jacques Henner

She'll know why.

Portrait of an auburn beauty, by Jean-Jacques Henner

In the Grass, by Arthur Hughes

God Speed, by Edmund Blair Leighton

Have a wonderful day.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: Awww!! You're so sweet!! I think I like "In the Grass" the best, but they are all lovely. Thank you!!

~ A.K. ~; November 22, 2010 at 8:22 AM
Julie said...: Haha! I liked "In the Grass" the most, too. But for some reason I was thinking that you wouldn't like it as much...

Silly me! :p

Glad you liked it!!! :); November 22, 2010 at 9:39 AM

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Auburn

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