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Brooks: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.— EBEZENER ELLIOTT — The Village

Patriarch. Love and Other Poems. Spring. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take.— GRAY — The Progress of Poesy. I. 1. L. 3.

Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones.— HOOD — Town and Country. St. 9.

Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road, The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode Among the pines and mosses of yonder shadowy height, Where thou dost sparkle into song, and fill the woods with light.— LUCY LARCOM — Friend Brook. St. 1.

See, how the stream has overflowed Its banks, and o'er the meadow road Is spreading far and wide!— LONGFELLOW — Christus. The Golden Legend. Pt. III. Sc. VII. The

Nativity. The music of the brook silenced all conversation.— LONGFELLOW — Kavanagh. Ch. XXI.