 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: O...  Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life - Page 38by William Shakespeare - 1847Full view - About this book
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Outdoor life - 1865 - 116 pages
...men, for thus sings he : Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks...cuckoo, — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! William Shakspeare. TO DAFFODILS. FAIR daffodils ! we weep to see You haste away so soon ; As yet... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1866 - 304 pages
...men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks...word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! WINTER. m. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1866 - 402 pages
...delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Cuckoo, cuckoo, — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks...cuckoo, — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! in. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 188 pages
...married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks...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, When blood is nipp'd,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 484 pages
...sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — O word of fear, Unpleasinp tn a married epl! When shepherds pine on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks,...cuckoo.— O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! III. Winter. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logi... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1870 - 838 pages
...men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo ; — O word of fear, Unceasing to a married ear ! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks...cuckoo ; — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married car ! WINTER. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail. And Tom bears logs... | |
 | James Edmund Harting - Birds - 1871 - 840 pages
...appears early in Spring, and is in bloom at the same time as the other flowers named in the song. II. When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks...cuckoo, O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear.'' In the old copies the four first lines of the first stanza are arranged in couplets thus : — " When... | |
 | American poetry - 1873 - 296 pages
...men, for thus sings he : Cuckoo ! Cuckoo, cuckoo ! — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks...cuckoo! — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! II. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1875 - 584 pages
...for thus sings lie, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cnckoo, — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! II. When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks...cuckoo, — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! Winttr. When icicles hang by the wall. And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into... | |
 | Alfred Roffe - Music in literature - 1878 - 146 pages
...Unpleasing to a married ear ! ii. When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughman's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks and daws, And...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, When blood is nipp'd,... | |
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