 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 830 pages
...begin. THE SONG. i. SPRING. When daisies pied* and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver white, hroud. Now it is the time of night, That the graves,...all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, Cu koo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — 0 word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear I Ht When shepherds pipe on... | |
 | Linda Bamber - 1982 - 223 pages
...is a good place, then, to continue the investigation of genre. Spring When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds...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 tread, and... | |
 | Marilyn L. Williamson - 1986 - 200 pages
...are prepared for the burden of Spring's song at the end, even though the marriages are a year away: The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men;...cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! (5.2.908-12) All the elements of the paradigm for the reading of the middle comedies are here without... | |
 | Bill Moore - 1987 - 180 pages
...ROBERT BROWNING When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, •...tree Mocks married men; for thus sings he: Cuckoo! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Spring signs, surely: One misty moisty morning, When cloudy was the weather. OLD... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - 1988 - 704 pages
...of Spring's song (one of the paired songs that ends Love's Labour's Lost, V.ii.90421). The refrain: "The cuckoo then, on every tree, / Mocks married men;.../ O word of fear, / Unpleasing to a married ear!" "Cuckoo" equals, of course, "cuckold." 9.1026 (212:38). reverbed - The verb to reverb (reecho) occurs... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1998 - 276 pages
...the owl, th'other by the cuckoo. Ver, begin. THE SONG SPRING (sinas) When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds...on every tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he : 880 'Cuckoo! 859 an' a day] Q (an'aday); and a day F 8f>oI Enter Armado] miwi ; Enter Braggart. OF... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...myself Find in myself no pity to myself? (V, iii) Love's Labour's Lost too When daisies pied and violets anhattan the son. Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating,...them, No more modest than immodest. (Fr. XXIV, 1. O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear. When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are... | |
 | Laura Erickson - 410 pages
...robin is here. Its song, a two-noted "cuckoo" exactly like the clock, inspired Shakespeare to write, "The cuckoo, then, on every tree,/ Mocks married men;...cuckoo: O word of fear,/ Unpleasing to a married ear." He also wrote, "He was but as the cuckoo is in June,/ Heard, not regarded." Shakespeare made many allusions... | |
 | 229 pages
...in the larger framework of the seasonal cycle, a truncated calendar: When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds...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 tread, and... | |
 | S. K. Heninger - 1994 - 228 pages
...in the larger framework of the seasonal cycle, a truncated calendar: When daisies pied, and violets blue. And lady-smocks all silver-white. And cuckoo-buds...thus sings he, "Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo" — O word of tear, Un pleasing to a married ear! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's... | |
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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... 
