 | Mrs. Charles Meredith - Botanical illustration - 1836 - 400 pages
...bells are generally named by poets as the resort of fairies; Shakspeare's "dainty Ariel" sings — Where the bee sucks, there suck I ; In a cowslip's bell I lie: 52 And the fairy talking to Puck, in the " Midsummer-night's Dream" — that "paradise of dainty devices"... | |
 | Joan Aiken - Juvenile Fiction - 2001 - 204 pages
...kicking her heels against the legs of the bench and trying to say over one of the poems she had learned: Where the bee sucks, there suck I In a cowslip's bell I lie . . . But this seemed no place for poems. The worst of it was, she began to be certain that she could... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 236 pages
...Significantly, at the end of the play, as he helps Prospero don the trappings of an Italian duke, he sings: Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's...summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. (v, i, 88-94) Clearly, Ariel is anticipating his future freedom... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...suffer a sea change Into something rich and strange, Sea nymphs hourly ring his knell: (I.ii.376-402) Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's...summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. (Vi88-94) There is music to put people to sleep and to waken them,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...clust'ring filberts and sometimes I'll get thee Young scamels from the rock. Caliban — Tempest II. ii Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip's...summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. Ariel — Tempest Vi Roses, their sharp spines being gone, Not... | |
 | Barbara T. Gates - Literary Collections - 2002 - 712 pages
...cannot see it. Ariel and Puck did not live in some unknown region. On the contrary, Ariel's song is "Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's...On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily." ' The peasant falls asleep some evening in a wood, and his eyes are opened by a fairy wand, so that... | |
 | Barbara T. Gates - Literary Collections - 2002 - 700 pages
...unknown region. On the contrary, Ariel's song is "Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip s bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily." ' The peasant falls asleep some evening in a wood, and his eyes are opened by a fairy wand, so that... | |
 | Arthur Meier Schlesinger - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 1128 pages
...socks into the water, which made a great impression on Caroline. And her father taught Caroline poetry: Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie. There I couch when owls do cry. For her part Jacqueline was determined that the children lead as normal lives as possible. This was... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Fiction - 2002 - 280 pages
...Thou shalt ere long be free. ARIEL sings, and helps to attire him. Where the bee sucks, there suck /. In a cowslip's bell I lie. There I couch when owls do cry. 100 On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom... | |
 | David Kazanjian - Social Science - 2003 - 336 pages
...world, a freedom of movement figured by the song Carwin invokes from The Tempest, which actually reads: "Where the bee sucks, there suck I, / In a cowslip's...merrily. / Merrily, merrily shall I live now, / Under the blossom that hangs on the bough" (act 5, scene 1, lines 88-94). Yet Memoirs of Carwin increasingly... | |
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Where the bee sucks, there suck I ; In a cowslip's bell I lie : There I couch*. When owls do cry, '} \ On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. 
