 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 834 pages
...refused. Wordsworth says to the Cuckoo : O blithe netr-comer ! I have heard, I hear thee, and rejoice. O Cuckoo ! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice ? * » * * * '. Thrice welcome, darling orHhe Spring ! Even yet thou art to me No bird, but an invisible... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 496 pages
...refused. Wordsworth says to the Cuckoo : O blithe new-comer ! I have heard, I hear thee, and rejoice. O Cuckoo ! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice ? \ * * » * * '. Thrice welcome, darling of the Spring ! Even yet thou art to me No bird, but an invisible... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Townsend - 1876 - 336 pages
...spring-time, &c. SHAKESPEARE. THE CUCKOO. O BLITHE new-comer ! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice. O Cuckoo ! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice ? While I am lying on the grass Thy two-fold shout I hear, From hill to hill it seems to pass, At once... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 366 pages
...Stock-dove broods ; of the same bird, His voice was buried among trees, Yet to be come at by the breeze ; O, Cuckoo ! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice ? The stock-dove is said to coo, a sound well imitating the note of the bird ; but, by the intervention... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 364 pages
...Stock-dove broods ; of the same bird, His voice was buried among trees, Yet to be come at by the breeze ; O, Cuckoo ! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice ? The stock-dove is said to coo, a sound well imitating the note of the bird ; but, by the intervention... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1877 - 326 pages
...comes every year •78* TO THE CUCKOO O BLITHE new-comer ! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice : O Cuckoo ! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering Voice ? While I am lying on the grass Thy twofold shout I hear ; From hill to hill it seems to pass, At once... | |
 | Walter K. Fobes - 1877 - 108 pages
...FOBCE. 1. A noise as of a hidden brook 2. O blithe new-comer ! I have heard, I hear thee, and rejoice: O cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice? Thrice welcome, darling of the spring 1 Even yet thou art to me No bird, but an invisible thing, A... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1877 - 238 pages
...philosophic gardens all leafless and bare, still from the depth of the desolation rose up the voice— O cuckoo, shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice ? which did not grow hoarse, like other cuckoos, but sang not unsweetly, if more faintly than before.... | |
 | William Francis Ainsworth - 1878 - 738 pages
...lines, since we have not space for all — " 0 blithe new-comer ! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice. O cuckoo ! Shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice ? Though babbling only to the vale Of sunshine and of flowers, Thou bringeet onto me a tale Of visionary... | |
 | William Francis Ainsworth - 1878 - 738 pages
...lines, since we have not space for all— " 0 blithe new-comer ! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice. O cuckoo ! Shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice ? Though babbling only to the vale Of sunshine and of flowers, Thou bringeet onto me a tale Of visionary... | |
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O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice? While I am lying on the grass Thy twofold shout I hear, From hill to hill it seems to pass, At once far off, and near. Though babbling only to the Vale, Of sunshine and of flowers, Thou bringest... 
