 | Vacha Masu - 2003 - 172 pagini
...is not a mother's plaintive call for her little ones, but the male's lusty call: "Cuckoo! Cuckoo!" The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men;...sings he Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo; O, word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! William Shakespeare: Love 's Labour 's Lost 0 blithe new-comer! I have... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 pagini
...he, Cuckoo, cuckoo! O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles...Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo, cuckoo! O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ENGLISH (1564-1616) Corinna's Going... | |
 | Ross W. Duffin - 2004 - 536 pagini
...fear, unpleasing to a married ear. When Shepherds pipe on Oaten straws, and merry Larks are Ploughmens' clocks: When Turtles tread, and Rooks and Daws, and...married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo. Cuckoo, Cuckoo: 0 word of fear, unpleasing to a married ear. HIS SONG SURVIVES without any indication of its original... | |
 | Bidyut Chakrabarty - 2004 - 192 pagini
...different. Spring comes first with an ironic hymn to fertility: the cuckoo's voice is the voice of adultery. The cuckoo then on every tree Mocks married men, for...sings he: Cuckoo, Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! And who has the last word in this comedy? Not spring, even so ironically... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine - 2011 - 353 pagini
...lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue 970 Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then on every tree Mocks married men; for...sings he: "Cuckoo! Cuckoo, cuckoo!" O word of fear, 975 Unpleasing to a married ear. When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are plowmen's... | |
 | Martha Barnette - 2005 - 211 pagini
...familiar one to Shakespeare's audiences, and thus at the end of Love's Labor's Lost the Bard wrote: The cuckoo then on every tree Mocks married men; for...sings he, "Cuckoo; Cuckoo, Cuckoo" — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear. Many historians surmise that the columbine flower fell out of favor with... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2007 - 297 pagini
...O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! H When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry lacks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks...he — Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! Act V. Vs. II. WINTER When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2007 - 1288 pagini
...Unpleasing to a married ear! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws And merry larks are ploughmen's docks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens...sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! WINTER. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his... | |
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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, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O... 
