 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 512 pages
...SONG. Spring. When daisies pied, and violets l>lue, And lady-smocks all silver-white. And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue. Do paint the meadows with delight,...married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — О word nf fear, Unf leasing to a married ear! II. When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry... | |
 | Titus Maccius Plautus - Greece - 1852 - 580 pages
...autumn. Shakspeare, in the beautiful song in tt Fifth Act of Love's Labour Lost, has these lines : The cuckoo then on every tree, Mocks married men,...cuckoo ! 0 word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! Perhaps the reason of this epithet being deemed opprobrious, was tlie simple fa; that the cackoo... | |
 | Flower garden - 1852 - 116 pages
...they sang " When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight,...Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo, cuckoo ! " " The azured harebell," the pale daffodil, the golden crocus, the crisped hyacinth, the columbine,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 pages
...iv. 1. SPRING. When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight,...married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo. O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear I When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 746 pages
...SONG. SPRING. When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight ;...married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo ; — О word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear 1 When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 916 pages
...SONO. Spnng. When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-while, And cuckoo-buds The brother to the duke of Burgundy ; And Edward...earls, Grandpré, and Roussi, Fauconberg, and Foix, Be Cue/coo, cuckoo, — 0 word of fear ! Unpleasing to a married ear. п. When shepherds pipe on oaten... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1854 - 424 pages
...SONG. Spring. When dailies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks alt siher-ichitc, And, cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows -with delight,...cuckoo, — 0 word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! 11. When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen'! clocks, When turtles tread,... | |
 | Robert Bell - Ballads, English - 1855 - 284 pages
...WINTEE. I TT^HEN daisies pied, and violets blue, * * And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight,...married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — O word of fear, TJnpleasing to a married ear ! 2 When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 996 pages
...SONG. Spring. When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds Title. J Stimulate. ', Knciterner.t. U TempLHiun. — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear.1 II. When shepherds pipe on oaten strau-f, And merry... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1856 - 772 pages
...known song, — When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight,...married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo, Cuckoo, cuckoo ; — O word of fear, Unpleasing to the married ear ! Lore's Labour Lost, Act v., last scene. The meaning... | |
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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 married men ; for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo... 
