 | Erich Segal - Performing Arts - 2009 - 612 pages
...the theme of almost every comedy. Shakespeare testifies to this universality in a delightful song: The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men;...Cuckoo, cuckoo"; O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear!103 the model of the dutiful, morigera wife, whose highest ambition would be lifelong devotion... | |
 | 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....And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipt and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy... | |
 | G. Wilsin Knight - Drama - 2002 - 368 pages
...ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men;...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 shepherd blows... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...ploughmen's clocks; When turtles tread and rooks and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks, The cuckoo then on every tree, Mocks married men,...cuckoo!" O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear. Winter's song is: When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears... | |
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When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the hall. And milk comes frozen home in pail... 
