brooks quotes

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks: With silken lines, and silver hooks. See Marlowe 553:17, Raleigh 677:98.

-John Donne
c.1595^1605  'The Bait', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July-flowers. I sing of May-poles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes, Of bride-grooms, brides, and of their bridal-cakes.

- Robert Herrick
  Hesperides,'The  Argument of His Book'.

By brooks too broad for leaping The lightfoot boys are laid; The rose-lipt girls are sleeping In fields where roses fade.

- A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
  A Shropshire Lad, no.54.

   Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.

-John Milton
c.1631 L'Allegro, l.69^76.

Ye valleys low where the mild whispers use, Of shades and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enameled eyes, That on the green turf such the honeyed showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.

-John Milton
  Lycidas, l.136^41.

All that bowery loneliness, The brooks of Eden mazily murmuring.

-Tennyson
  'Milton: Alcaics', l.9^10.