 | Mowbray Morris - 1898 - 394 pages
...not designed Th' eclipse and glory of her kind ? Sir Henry Wot ton. 43 WINTER (Love's Labours Lost.) 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-whit, Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1899 - 334 pages
...daws; And maidens bleach their summer smocks : The Cuckoo then, on every tree, &c. THE WINTER'S SONG. 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... | |
 | William Bramwell Powell, Louise Connolly - 1899 - 336 pages
...England, That guard our native seas, Whose flag has braved a thousand years The battle and the breeze. 26. 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. The first word of every sentence should begin with a capital... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1899 - 380 pages
...The cuckoo then, on every tree. Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo — oh, word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! III. Winter....his nail. And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk conies frozen home in pail. When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foul. Then nightly sings the staring... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.), Adaline Wheelock Sterling - 1901 - 526 pages
...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... | |
 | Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith - 1902 - 772 pages
...eld, That scarce his loosed limbs he able was to weld. EDMUND SFENSEE. r When Icicles Hang by ihe Wall 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 ! A When all aloud the wind doth blow, Chanted... | |
 | John Hays Gardiner, George Lyman Kittredge, Sarah Louise Arnold - 1902 - 462 pages
...quoted below (pp. 411-17). The seventh verse in the following passage is an iambic monometer (x /) : 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 "Tuwhoo! "Tuwhit! tuwhoo!" A merry note! While greasy Joan... | |
 | 1902 - 462 pages
...quoted below (pp. 411-17). The seventh verse in the following passage is an iambic monometer (x /) : 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 "T1rwhoo! "Tuwhit! tuwhoo!" A merry note! While greasy... | |
 | 1902 - 158 pages
...the brown stream, swirling by the grass, And in the hillside hollows snow yet was. —William Morris. 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; To-whit, to-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan... | |
 | Mrs. Kate Douglas (Smith) Wiggins, Nora Archibald Smith - 1916 - 784 pages
...eld, That scarce his loosed limbs he able was to weld. EDMUND SPENSER. r When Icicles Hang by the Wall 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... | |
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Tu-whit, 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... 
