 | Robert Bell - Ballads, English - 1854 - 282 pages
...for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! -2When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows...And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipped, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, To-who; Tu-whit, to-who, a merry note,... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 510 pages
...Reading old letters of her far-off youth, Of sorrows past and joys of long ago. NC BENSRT. A WINTER SONG. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd...ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, To-whoo ; Tu-whit, to-whoo, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind... | |
 | Drawing-room sibyl - 1855 - 464 pages
...with A sober gladness, the old year takes up His bright inheritance of golden fruits. Longfelluir. 7 When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd...the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail ; When all around the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Conduct of life - 1856 - 418 pages
...left solitary, shut out from the consolatory faces of your species, in some lonely manor-house ! " When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick, the shepherd,...home in pail, When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foul, And nightly sings the staring owl, When all around the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 996 pages
...for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! III. as the last man in our mouths. Ant. Shylock, albeit I neit befoul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, To-who; To-whit, to-who, a merry note, ; While greasy Joan... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 618 pages
...men ; for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear I When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks...ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-who ;(lls) Tu-whit, tu-who,_fl merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 626 pages
...Unpleasing to a married ear 1 When shepherd's pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks arc ploughmen's clock's, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens...And milk comes frozen home in pail ; When blood is nipped, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, To-who j Tu-whit, to- who, a merry note,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 620 pages
...The cuckoo then, on every tree Mocks married men ; for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! WINTER....ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-who ;("») Tu-whit, tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 616 pages
...for thua sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — 0 word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! WHITER. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd...ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-who;(115) Tu-whit, tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the... | |
 | Edward McDermott (of Camberwell, Eng.?) - England - 1859 - 224 pages
...of Winter was a limited one, for there were thofe who would fing that famous fong of Shakefpere,— When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd...ways be foul. Then nightly sings the staring owl, To-whoo; Tu-whit, to-whoo, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind... | |
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Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly... 
