| English drama - 1826 - 408 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 ! Orl. For these two hours, Rosalind, I will leave thee. Roi. Alas, dear love, I cannot lack thee two... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 482 pages
...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,...cuckoo, — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! II. When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1827 - 658 pages
...married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — 0 word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! Winter. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the...frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, To-who; Tu-whit, to-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan... | |
| William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1827 - 394 pages
...howling wind of a bleak winter's niglu, and the hoarse screeching and mystic hooting of the ominous owl.* WINTER. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the...And milk comes frozen home in pail ; When blood is nipt, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whp ; Tn-whit tu-who, a merry note,... | |
| William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1827 - 390 pages
...night, and the hoarse screeching and mystic hooting of the ominous owl.* WINTER. When icicles hanj 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, 5Tu-who ; Tu-whit tu-who, a merry note.... | |
| William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 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. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into... | |
| John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. WINTER, A SONG. WHF.S icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows...And milk comes frozen home in pail ; When blood is nipt, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whoo ! . Tu-whit ! tu-whoo ! a merry... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 414 pages
...Shalupeare . Rather at Nilus* mud Lay me stark naked, aud let the water-flies Blow me into abhorring. Id. When icicles hang by the wall. And Dick the shepherd...into the hall. And milk comes frozen home in pail. Id. A plague of sighing and grief ! it blows a man up like a bladder. Id. Your breath first kindled... | |
| William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 444 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,...into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail, ' cuckoo-buds — ] ie Cowslip-buds, from the French herbe cocu. — When blood is nipp'd, and ways... | |
| William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 420 pages
...And lady-smocks all silver whitt, And cuckoo-buds* of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows n/t/i delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men,...cuckoo, — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! ii. When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread,... | |
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