 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...  The Songs of England and Scotland - Página 211835Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1844 - 328 páginas
...sings he— Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, — oh, word of fear, Unpleasing to a mariied ear. When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's...tread, and rooks and daws, And maidens bleach their smocks, The cuckoo then on every tree, Hocks married men, for thus sings he— Cucioo, cuckoo, cuckoo,—... | |
 | John Mills - 1845 - 324 páginas
..." Perchance time may reveal that which now appears beyond our reach." CHAPTER XV. " When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's...— O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear." WITH creels slung across their shoulders, cased fishing-rods in their hands, and their appointments... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 páginas
...men, for thus sings he. Cuckoo, cuckoo! O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear. When shepherds BS-P; OBEV BARNAHE GOUGE (1540-1594) Of Money 1 Give...For friends are gone come once adversity. When mone (V, ii) BoTP; EIL; FF; FiP; HAP; HelP; InPK; NAEL-1; NBLV; NIP; NOBE; NoP; OAEL-1; OBEV; OBSC; PBBP;... | |
 | Laura Erickson - 410 páginas
...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;...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." Shakespeare made many allusions... | |
 | 229 páginas
...sings he, "Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo" — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's...cuckoo" — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the hall,... | |
 | S. K. Heninger - 1994 - 228 páginas
...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... | |
 | Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - 1994 - 482 páginas
...Thereby denying erotic gratification. "The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for this sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo; O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear!' (Love's Labour's Lost V.2.899) As Kail (1986,267) points out, 'Elizabethan plays abound in references... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 páginas
...thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: О word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! When shepherds pear. And this weak an О word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! WINTER. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1996 - 616 páginas
...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;...— O word of fear, / Unpleasing to a married ear! " ODE IV: TO THE HONOURABLE CHARLES TOWNSHEND IN THE COUNTRY. MDCCL First published in 1772a; subsequently... | |
 | Arthur Graham - 1997 - 244 páginas
...Mistress Ford and Mistress Page are heard singing it offstage. Ford is distraught at the final lines. The cuckoo then on every tree Mocks married men for thus sings he: Cuckoo, cuckoo— O, word of fear, Unpleasing to the married ear, Cuckoo, cuckoo . . . And Ford ends the scene with the... | |
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