| Robert Bell - 1904 - 356 Seiten
...on every tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — O word of fear, 3 When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd...and ways befoul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, To- who ; Tu-whit, to-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel ' the pot. 4 When all around the... | |
| John Burroughs - 1904 - 310 Seiten
...Shakespeare's, from "Love's Labor's Lost," and perhaps has reference to the white or snowy owl : — "When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd...frozen home in pail; When blood is nipped and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whoo ! 32 Tu-whit! tu-whoo! a merry note, While greasy... | |
| John Burroughs - 1904 - 316 Seiten
...Shakespeare's, from "Love's Labor's Lost," and perhaps has reference to the white or snowy owl: — "When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd...frozen home in pail; When blood is nipped and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whoo! 32 Tu-whit! tu-whoo! a merry note, While greasy... | |
| Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1904 - 520 Seiten
...It." It was not he, however, who found sermons in stones; it was the Duke; see the play, II. i. 17. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the Shepherd...frozen home in pail, When blood is nipped, and ways be foul, When nightly sings the staring owl, To-who; Tu-whit, to-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan... | |
| 1905 - 474 Seiten
...comfits of his mother, or to tell of the day's 382 He himself sings of the winter evenings : — " When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd...frozen home in pail, When blood is nipped and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl." In the summer the days of the boy at Stratford were glorious.... | |
| 1905 - 272 Seiten
...men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! III When icicles hang by the wall. And Dick the shepherd...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, While greasy Joan... | |
| Arthur Symons - 1906 - 426 Seiten
...married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! Winter When icicles hang by the wall And Dick the...frozen home in pail, When blood is nipped and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit ; Tu-who, a merry note, And coughing drowns the... | |
| Jennie Day Haines - 1907 - 148 Seiten
...charms, — December, fair and holly-crowned, With the Christ-child in her arms. Edna Dean Prodtor. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd...frozen home in pail, When blood is nipped, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, To-whit! To-who! — a merry note, While greasy Joan doth... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 616 Seiten
...men, And Death once dead, there's no more dying then. SONGS FROM THE PLAYS FROM LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd...frozen home in pail, When blood is nipped and ways be foul, 5 Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit, tu-who! a merry note, While greasy Joan doth... | |
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