brooklet

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Then—for thy shelter from life's sultrier suns, The oak of strength I set o'er joy that runs With brooklet glee from winds that grieve above.

From Song-Surf by Rice, Cale Young

Clear was the heaven and blue, and May, with her cap crowned with roses, Stood in her holiday dress in the fields, and the wind and the brooklet Murmured gladness and peace, God's-peace!

From The Song of Hiawatha An Epic Poem by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

You have heard the wood-dove calling in the lone stillness of the summertime; you have found the unheeded brooklet singing and babbling where no ear comes to hear.

From Jennie Gerhardt A Novel by Dreiser, Theodore

So I came now, O Psyche, and then I espied a brooklet meandering through the sand.

From Psyche by Couperus, Louis

And I peer into the shadows, Till they seem to pass away, And the fields and their tiny brooklet Lie clear in the light of day.

From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry