 | William Shakespeare - 1909 - 782 pages
...show. King. Call them forth quickly; we will do so. Arm. Holla! approach. 900 Re-enter Holof ernes, Nathaniel, Moth, Costard, and others. This side is...Mocks married men ; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; 910 906. Gerarde in his Herbal, I597, says, that the flat cucult cardamine, &c., are called "in English... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1909 - 636 pages
...for Jove, Turning mortal for thy love. W. SHAKESPEARE (Love's Labour's Lost, Act iv, Sc. iii). 827. 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 ! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1910 - 864 pages
...followed in the end of our show. King. Call them forth quickly ; we will do so. Arm. Holla ! approach. Re-enter Holofernes, Nathaniel, Moth, Costard and...tree, Mocks married men ; for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; 397 Cuckoo, cuckoo : O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear I When shepherds pipe on oaten straws,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1910 - 254 pages
...this Ver, the Spring ; the one maintained by the owl, the other by the cuckoo. — Ver, begin. 891 Song Spring. When daisies pied and violets blue, And...tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — O word of fear, Unf leasing to a married ear ! 900 When shepherds pipe on oaten... | |
 | American poetry - 1910 - 498 pages
...excelling; She excels each mortal thing Upon the dull earth dwelling: To her let us garlands bring. p<5 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 ! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws,... | |
 | Lafcadio Hearn - English literature - 1915 - 420 pages
...treated as honest birds are treated by a cuckoo. And now you will understand Shakespeare's "Spring Song." 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 - Courts and courtiers - 1917 - 264 pages
...show. King. Call them forth quickly ; we will do so. Arm. Holla ! approach. goo Re-enter HOLOFEBNES, NATHANIEL, MOTH, COSTARD, and others This side is...SONG SPRING When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-jmocks all silver-white And cucjcoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Sanford Saltus - Animals in literature - 1918 - 104 pages
...—ACT IV. Sc. III. ROSALINE What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word? —ACT V. Sc. II. MOTH 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... | |
 | American poetry - 1918 - 2062 pages
...love of men. Richard Hovcy [1864—1900] GLINTS O' SUNSHINE SONG From " Love's Labor's Lost" I — Cuckoo, cuckoo, — 0 word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws,... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1918 - 1116 pages
...but an Ethiop were ; And deny himself for Jove, Turning mortal for thy love. Spring and Winter i rHEN daisies pied and violets blue, And lady-smocks all...tree, Mocks married men ; for thus sings he, Cuckoo, cuckoo! — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And... | |
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Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks... 
