I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,
Among my skimming swallows;
I make the netted sunbeams 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.
HELPS TO STUDY.
Notes and Questions.
These stanzas are part of a longer poem called "The Brook."
In this poem Tennyson personifies the brook. Why?
In what lines do the words and the rhythm suggest the sound of the brook?
Which lines do this most successfully?
Point out words that seem to you especially appropriate in giving the thought.