Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted... The Blue Poetry Book - Page 61edited by - 1891 - 348 pagesFull view - About this book
| Frances Mayes - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 548 pages
...Shakespeare's "Winter" still seems immediate to contemporary readers. WINTER (William Shakespeare, 1564-1616) When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd...And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipped, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl: "To-who! Tu-whit, tu-who!" a merry note,... | |
| Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...cold, keel: to cool, as by stirring, glib: first, literally, slippery, gelatine. Via Fr, jelly; Jello. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick, the shepherd,...And milk comes frozen home in pail; When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul Then nightly sings the staring owlTu-whit, Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy... | |
| Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
.../ Cuckoo; / Cuckoo, cuckoo; O word of fear, / Unpleasing to a married ear! / Wínfer. When ¡cicles hang by the wall, / And Dick the shepherd blows his.../And milk comes frozen home in pail, /When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foul, / Then nightly sings the staring owl, / Tu-whit; / Tu-who, a merry note,... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: О word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! WINTER. When icicles hanc by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail....ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow,... | |
| G. Wilsin Knight - Drama - 2002 - 368 pages
...Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — O word of fear! Unpleasing to a married ear. Then Winter, freezing and cruel: Winter. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the...And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, To-who; When all aloud the wind doth... | |
| Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...sings he: "Cuckoo! Cuckoo, cuckoo!" O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear. Winter's song is: When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd...And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl: Tu-who! Tu-whit, tu-who!" a merry note,... | |
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