 | Laura Erickson - 410 Seiten
...robin is here. Its song, a two-noted "cuckoo" exactly like the clock, inspired Shakespeare to write, "The cuckoo, then, on every tree,/ Mocks married men;...sings he, Cuckoo/ Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear,/ Unpleasing to a married ear." He also wrote, "He was but as the cuckoo is in June,/ Heard, not regarded."... | |
 | S. K. Heninger - 1994 - 214 Seiten
...Cuckoo, cuckoo" — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks; When turtles...sings he, "Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo" — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And... | |
 | S. K. Heninger - 1994 - 228 Seiten
...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; for...thus sings he, "Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo" — O word of tear, Un pleasing to a married ear! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 Seiten
...Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: О word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws n О word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! WINTER. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd... | |
 | Jill Barnett - 1996 - 356 Seiten
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 | Mark Akenside - 1996 - 616 Seiten
...nightingale's: see gloss to Pleasures 3.473 (p. 461 above). 19-21: cf. Loves Labours Lost 5.2.898-902: "The cuckoo then on every tree / Mocks married men;...he, 'Cuckoo; / Cuckoo cuckoo' — O word of fear, / Unpleasing to a married ear! " ODE IV: TO THE HONOURABLE CHARLES TOWNSHEND IN THE COUNTRY. MDCCL... | |
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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: O... 
