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" When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men ; for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo... "
Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems - Page 179
by William Shakespeare - 1858
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Library of the World's Best Literature: A-Z

Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - Anthologies - 1897 - 680 pages
...thought can think, nor tongue of mortal tell. SONG: SPRING AND WINTER From < Love's Labour's Lost ' SPRING WHEN daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks...married men, for thus sings he: Cuckoo, Cuckoo, cuckoo, — oh, word of fear! Unpleasing to a married ear. When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks...
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English lyrics from Spenser to Milton, intr. by J. Dennis

John Dennis - 1898 - 250 pages
...rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again. WHEN DAISIES PIED W. SHAKESPEARE WHEN daisies pied and violets blue, And lady-smocks...Cuckoo, cuckoo : O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! 19 When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles...
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Songs from the Plays of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare, Ernest Rhys - 1898 - 130 pages
...wind and the rain, But that's all one, our play is done, And we'll strive to please you every day. WHEN daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks...he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo : — O word of fear, Unpleasmg to a married ear ! 44 And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks,...
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The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1899 - 432 pages
...Winter, this Ver, the Spring ; the one maintained by the owl, the other by the cuckoo. Ver, begin. THE SONG. SPRING. When daisies pied and violets blue And...tree, Mocks married men ; for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; 910 Cuckoo, cuckoo : O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! 905. lady-smocks. ' The Car- hung...
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The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1899 - 428 pages
...Winter, this Ver, the Spring ; the one maintained by the owl, the other by the cuckoo. Ver, begin. THE SONG. SPRING. When daisies pied and violets blue And...tree, Mocks married men ; for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; 910 Cuckoo, cuckoo : O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! 905. lady-smocks. ' The Car- hung...
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Shakespeare's Songs

William Shakespeare - 1901 - 182 pages
...and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die. ACT III., SCENE I. ' From ' LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST ' SPRING WHEN daisies pied and violets blue, And lady-smocks...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,...
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The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1901 - 1190 pages
...Ethiop were; And deny himself for Jove, Turning mortal for thy love. Spring and Winter l2f. i VVTHEN daisies pied and violets blue, And lady-smocks all...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,...
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English Songs and Ballads

Thomas William Hodgson Crosland - Ballads, English - 1902 - 376 pages
...poll : He is gone, he is gone, And we cast away moan : God ha' mercy on his soul ! WHEN DAISIES PIED WHEN daisies pied and violets blue, And lady-smocks...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 tread,...
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The Shepherd's Pipe: Pastorial Poems of the XVI & XVII Centuries

Fitz Roy Carrington - English poetry - 1903 - 172 pages
...need, Then these delights my mind might move, To live with thee and be thy love. IBilJianI (1564-1616) Spring When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks...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,...
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Songs from the Dramatists

Robert Bell - Ballads, English - 1904 - 356 pages
...Juno but an Ethiope were ; And deny himself for Jove, Turning mortal for thy love. SPRING AND WINTER. WHEN daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks...cuckoo, — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear l When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread,...
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