 | John Ford - 1869 - 442 pages
...so shrill and clear ; How at heaven's gates she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings. Hark, hark, with what a pretty throat Poor Robin Redbreast...cuckoos sing ' Cuckoo !' to welcome in the spring." Del. Music, take Echo's voice, and dance quick rounds To thine own times in repercussive sounds. \An... | |
 | John Ford - 1869 - 444 pages
...so shrill and clear ; How at heaven's gates she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings. Hark, hark, with what a pretty throat Poor Robin Redbreast tunes his note ; Hark how the jolly cuckoos sing Del. Music, take Echo's voice, and dance quick rounds To thine own times in repercussive sounds. [An... | |
 | English drama - 1870 - 610 pages
...her wing*. None but the lark, so shrill and clear; The morn not waking till ehe sings. APELLES, TAGE. Hark! hark! with what a pretty throat Poor robin redbreast tunes his note ! Apel. Now, Apelles, gather thy wits together. Campaepe is no less wise than fair ; thyself must be... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - English poetry - 1872 - 396 pages
...MIND'S PROGRESS. Hark, hark ! with what a pretty note, Poor robin redbreast tunes his throat ; I lark how the jolly cuckoos sing, " Cuckoo ! " to welcome...spring ! " Cuckoo !" to welcome in the spring ! [JoHN LYLYE, born in Kent in 1563 — some writers say 1554 — died in 1601. He was the author of nine plays,... | |
 | Public school series - 1873 - 72 pages
...so shrill and clear ; ;Now at heaven's gates he claps his wings, The morn not waking till he sings. Hark ! hark, with what a pretty throat Poor robin...'Welcome in the spring ! Cuckoo, to welcome in the spring ! SPKINGK SPUING, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king, Then blooms each thing, then maids... | |
 | Rosaline Orme Masson - English poetry - 1876 - 454 pages
...Lark so shrill and clear ; At Heaven's gate she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings. Hark, hark ! with what a pretty throat Poor Robin...in the spring ! Cuckoo ! to welcome in the spring ! VULCAN'S SONG.2 My shag-hair Cyclops, come let's ply Our Lemnian hammers lustily. By my wife's sparrows,... | |
 | Rosaline Orme Masson - English poetry - 1876 - 454 pages
...Lark so shrill and clear ; At Heaven's gate she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings. Hark, hark ! with what a pretty throat Poor Robin...in the spring ! Cuckoo ! to welcome in the spring ! VULCAN'S SONG.S My shag-hair Cyclops, come let's ply Our Lemnian hammers lustily. By my wife's sparrows,... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...waking till she sings. Hark, hark ! but what a pretty note, Poor Robin Redbreast tunes his throat ; ue, GEORGE PEELE. GEORGE PEELE held the situation of city poet and conductor of pageants for the court.... | |
 | English poetry - 1877 - 724 pages
...Lark so shrill and clear ; At Heaven's gate she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings. Hark, hark ! with what a pretty throat Poor Robin...Cuckoos sing, Cuckoo ! to welcome in the spring ! Cuckoo I to welcome in the spring ! VULCAN'S soNG.2 My shag-hair Cyclops, come let's ply Our Lemnian hammers... | |
 | John Burroughs - American literature - 1877 - 278 pages
...thy year." The European cuckoo is evidently a much gayer bird than ours, and much more noticeable. " Hark, how the jolly cuckoos sing ' Cuckoo! ' to welcome in. the spring," says John Lyly, three hundred years agone. Its note is easily imitated, and boys will render it so... | |
| |
tis the ravished nightingale. " Jug, jug, jug, jug, tereu," she cries, And still her woes at midnight rise. Brave prick-song ! who is't now we hear ? None but the lark so shrill and clear ; Now at heaven's gates she claps her wings, The morn not waking... 
