 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 1883 - 496 pages
...: we will do so. Arm. Holla ! approach. Enter HOLOFERNES, Sir NATHANIEL, MOTH, COSTAHD, and others. This side is Hiems, winter ; this Ver, the spring...lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue,49 Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men, for thus... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 824 pages
...This Ver, the spring; the one maintained by the owl, the other by the cuckoo. Ver, begin. SONG. i. SPRING. When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks...tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! II. When shepherds pipe on oaten... | |
 | Phil Robinson - Birds in literature - 1883 - 540 pages
...cuckoo's sovereign cry Fills all the hollow of the sky. — Words-worth : Poems of Imagination. (II) When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks...tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — O word of fear,1 Unpleasing to a married ear ! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws,... | |
 | American poetry - 1886 - 552 pages
...the flowers. 126 127 "And birds sit brooding in the sno« THE ROTAL GALLERY. SPRING AND WINTER. .N" daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all...tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo,— О word of fear, Unpleasing to a married earl When shepherds pipe on oaten straws,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1887 - 276 pages
...music in such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die. XXXVII SPRING "\XTHEN daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all...tree, Mocks married men ; for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo : — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws... | |
 | Francis Francis - Fishing - 1887 - 294 pages
...fields are as green and golden as emerald grass and gorgeous buttercups can' make them ; and — Daises pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white,...tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ! I quote the lines because they ring with natural melody, and none that I know of so express the exuberant... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1889 - 808 pages
...This Ver. the spring ; the one maintained by the owl, the other by the cuckoo. Ver, begin. SONG. I. SPRING. When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks...tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! II. When shepherds pipe on oaten... | |
 | Arthur Henry Bullen - Ballads, English - 1889 - 288 pages
...Juno but an Ethiope were; And deny himself for Jove, Turning mortal for thy love. SPRING AND WINTER. WHEN daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks...tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo,—O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1894 - 166 pages
...Winter, this Ver, the Spring; the one maintained by the owl, the other by the cuckoo. Ver, begin. The Song. SPRING. When daisies pied and violets blue And...tree, Mocks married men ; for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; 910 Cuckoo, cuckoo : O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1894 - 570 pages
...Winter, this Ver, the Spring; the one maintained by the owl, the other by the cuckoo. Ver, begin. THE SONG. SPRING. When daisies pied and violets blue And...tree, Mocks married men ; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; 910 Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws... | |
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When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing... 
