 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
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1901 - 1190 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...! — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! 126. a EN icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1901 - 182 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...: — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! ACT V., SCENE II. 53 From ' LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST ' WINTER WHEN icicles hang by the wall, And Dick... | |
 | Thomas William Hodgson Crosland - Ballads, English - 1902 - 376 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...cuckoo : O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! IT WAS A LOVER IT was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the... | |
 | Fitz Roy Carrington - English poetry - 1903 - 172 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 ! From "Love's Labour's Lost.' Winter When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1905 - 272 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 ! III When icicles hang by the wall. And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into... | |
 | Arthur Symons - English poetry - 1906 - 426 pages
...fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws And merry larks are ploughmen 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 nipped... | |
 | Hamilton Wright Mabie - Love poetry - 1906 - 254 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...: — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! — William Shakespeare. . i HEN icicles hang by the wall And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1906 - 278 pages
...II. i. 124 (Arden ed. p. 71). Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! Winter. When shepherds pipe on oaten straws. And merry larks...Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married earl When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1873 - 588 pages
...merrily. Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough." Or again : " When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks...Cuckoo ! O word of fear, Unpleasing to. a married car !" What is the difference between the age of the voice that delights us in the foregoing music,... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1907 - 892 pages
...married men; and 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! W. Shakespeare 441. The Ousel-Cock, So Black of Hue HPHE ousel-cock, so black of hue, With orange-tawny... | |
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