 O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice? While I am lying on the grass Thy twofold shout I hear, From hill to hill it seems to pass, At once far off, and near. Though babbling only to the Vale, Of sunshine and of flowers, Thou bringest...  Love and Fantasy in the Cuckoo Islands - Pagina viiide Vacha Masu - 2003 - 167 paginiPrevizualizare limitată - Despre această carte
 | 1808 - 596 pagini
...II. p. 45. « The Swan on still St. iviary's lake Floats doulle, Swan and Shadow !" Vol. II. p. 34. ' O Cuckoo ! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering -voice! ' Thrice welcome, darling of the Spring ! Even yet thou art to me No Bird ; but an invisible thing,... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 pagini
...brood* {" of the same bird, "His voice was buried among trees, Yet to be come at by the breeze ;" " O, Cuckoo ! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice ?" , The Stock-dove is said to coo, a sound well imitating the note of the bird ; but, by the intervention... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pagini
...described this sentiment, in a little poem of beautiful simplicity : O blithe new-comer ! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice : O Cuckoo ! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice. While I am lying on the grass, . .••;;•...„ \ Thy loud note smites my ear ! From hill to hill... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1820 - 378 pagini
...broods ;" of the same bird, " His voice was buried among trees, Yet to be come at by the breeze;" " O, Cuckoo ! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice?" The Stock-dove is said to coo, a sound well imitating the note of the bird ; but, by the intervention... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1821 - 448 pagini
...returned, we too have a song for it, as genuine as any of theirs : — O blithe new-comer ! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice : O Cuckoo ! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice. While I am lying on the grass, Thy loud note smites my ear ! From hill to hill it seems to pass, At... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1824 - 380 pagini
...returned, we too have a song for it as genuine as any of theirs : — O blithe new-comer ! I have heard, I hear thee, and rejoice : O Cuckoo ! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice ? While I am lying on the grass, Thy loud note smites my ear ! From hill to hill it seems to pass,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pagini
...through thine eye Then, when old Helvellyn won thee To confess their majesty ! III. TO THE CUCKOO. 0 BLITHE New-comer ! I have heard, 1 hear thee and...! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice ? While I am lying on the grass Thy twofold shout I hear, That seems to fill the whole air's space,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pagini
...broods;" of the same bird, " His voice was buried among trees, Yet to be come at by the breeze;" « O, Cuckoo ! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice?" The Stock-dove is said to coo, a sound well imitating the note of the bird; but, by the intervention... | |
 | Anne Knight - 1831 - 164 pagini
...And bids our hearts rejoice, Till thou art brought To Fancy's thought As but a wandering voice ! * * O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice ? Wordsworth. Cuckoo, Cuckoo, O tell me who Thy song can coldly greet ? The very child, By thee beguil'd,... | |
 | 1832 - 406 pagini
...of Entertaining Knowledge, ' Criminal Trio/I.' TO THE CUCKOO. O blithe new-comer I 1 have heard, I hear thee, and rejoice. O Cuckoo ! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice ? While I am lying on the grass Thy twofold shout 1 hear, That seems to fill the whole air*l space,... | |
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