 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...  Notes and Queries - Page 1181889Full view - About this book
 | 1808 - 596 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...confess their majesty ! III. TO THE CUCKOO. 0 BLITHE New-comer ! I have heard, 1 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 I hear, That seems to fill the whole air's space,... | |
 | Anne Knight - 1831 - 164 pages
...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 pages
...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,... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1835 - 604 pages
...pleasure in our opening groves and woodlands. O blithe new-comer! I have heard, I hear ihee, and rejoice ; O, Cuckoo ! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice? While I am lying on the grass, Thy two-fold shout I hear, That seems to fill the whole air's space,... | |
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