 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 746 pages
...LABOUR'S LOST. \Vm N daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver white, And cuckuo-buds, of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then on ev'ry tree Mocks married men, for. thus sings he ; Cuckoo ! Cuckoo ! cnckoo ! — O word of fear, Unpleasing... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 472 pages
...Song, [At the end of " Love's Labour Lost."] WHEN daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver white, And cuckoo-buds, of yellow hue, Do paint...meadows with delight, The cuckoo then on every tree Mocks married men, for thus sings he : Cuckoo ! Cuckoo ! cuckoo ! — O word of fear, Unpleasing to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...begin. SONG. ^Spring. 'ing. When daisies pled, and violets blue, And lady-smacks 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 f [5] Gerard, in his Herbal. *$97> says, th'it the fii.s... | |
 | John Aikin - Children's stories - 1819 - 186 pages
...spring, in which ladysmock is mentioned :— When 'daisies pied, and violets bkie, And kdysiaocks all silver white ; And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight. T. They are Shakespear's. You he gives the name of cuekoo*b»d some other flower, a yellow one, •which... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 516 pages
...SoNo. Spring. When daisies pied, and violets !-fn.. And lady-smocks all silver uh',n , And cwkoo-butfs of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight, The' cuckoo then, en every tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he,— Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cufkoo^—O word offearf Unpleasing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 344 pages
...cuckoo. Ver, begin. SONG. Spring. When daisies pied, and vioiets blue, 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 ; [5] Gerard, in his Herbal, 1597, savs, that the fla,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Theater - 1823 - 436 pages
...cuckoo. Ver, begin. SONG. Soring. Whm daisies f ted, and violets blue. And lady-smocks all silver^ohtle, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men, for thus singi he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo,— O word of fear, Unf leasing to a... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1823 - 402 pages
...SPRING. . 'a 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, The cuckoo then on every tree Mocks married men, for thus sings he — Cuckoo ! Cuckoo ! cuckoo ! — O word of fear, Unpleasing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 474 pages
...SONG. Spring. When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds' 2 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, — 0 word of fear, Unpleasing to a married... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 470 pages
...SPRING. •a 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, The cuckoo then on every tree Mocks married men, for thus sings he — Cuckoo ! Cuckoo ! cuckoo ! — O word of fear, Unpleasing... | |
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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... 
