When 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 and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy... The Table Book... - Page 126by William Hone - 1827 - 870 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. WINTER, A SONG. WHF.S 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 nipt, and ways be foul,... | |
| William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 420 pages
...for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; » Cuckoo, cuckoo, — O word of fear, Unpkasing to a married ear! III. Winter. When 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, t euckoo-tntds— ] ie CouUip-bude, from... | |
| 1834 - 582 pages
...rigidity. Hear what SHAKESPEARE says, who seldom went wrong in these matters. WINTER. When icicles hung by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bear» logs into the hall, And milk romes frozen home in pail ; When blood is nipt, and ways be foul,... | |
| William Hone - Days - 1835 - 924 pages
...year into a season of pleasure ; and association of ideas, that great source of our keenest pleasures, may attach delightful images to the howling wind of...and mystic hooting of the ominous owl.* WINTER. When icicle* hang by the wall, Anil Dick the shepherd blows his rinil. And Tom bears logs into the hall,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1836 - 554 pages
...; for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, 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 logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipped, and ways befoul,... | |
| William Hone - 1837 - 922 pages
...year into a season of pleasure ; and association of ideas, that great source of our keenest pleasures, may attach delightful images to the howling wind of...the ominous owl.* WINTER. When icicles hang by the tvalL And Dick the shepherd blows hit nail. And Tom bears logs into the hall. And milk comes froten... | |
| Thomas Miller - Country life - 1837 - 466 pages
...upon our faces, and the dense rain comes streaming down our cheeks ; or, as Shakspeare describes it, " When 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 nipt, and ways be foul,... | |
| William Hone - Great Britain - 1838 - 890 pages
...year into a season of pleasure ; and association ot ideas, that great source of our keenest pleasures, may attach delightful images to the howling wind of...hooting of the ominous owl.* WINTER. When icicles hug by the wall. And Dick the shepherd blows his nail. And Tom bears logs into the hall, And inilk... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...waxen in their mirth, and neeze, and swear, A merrier hour was never wasted there. 7 — ii. 1 . 76 When 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, and ways be foul,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 pages
...Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — 0 word of fear, Unpleasing to a married earl Winter. III. II i.. n isicles $ bears logs into the hall, And milk comes froien home in pail, When blood is nipp'd, and ways btfml.... | |
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