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" The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair; (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, Which wholly consisted of lines like these. "
Public Opinion - Page 177
1901
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The Southern Magazine, Volume 11

1872 - 786 pages
...cheese) His last brew of ale was a trifle hard — 1 The connection of which with the plot one seesC The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair; (Butter...where, Which wholly consisted of lines like these. The charades are particularly good, especially that on Coal-scuttle, in the style of Macaulay's Lays,...
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Fly Leaves, Issue 383

Charles Stuart Calverley - English poetry - 1872 - 134 pages
...cheese} She hears the rooks caw in the windy skies, As she sits at her lattice and shells her peas. The farmer's daughter hath ripe red lips; (Butter...where, Which wholly consisted of lines like these. PAKT II. She sat with her hands 'neath her dimpled cheeks, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese)...
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Fly Leaves

Charles Stuart Calverley - English poetry - 1872 - 260 pages
...cheese) She hears the rooks caw in the windy skies, As she sits at her lattice and shells her peas. The farmer's daughter hath ripe red lips ; (Butter...hair; (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) And 1 met with a ballad, I can't say where, Which wholly consisted of lines like these. PART II. She sat...
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Fly Leaves

Charles Stuart Calverley - Poetry, Modern - 1872 - 144 pages
...cheese) She hears the rooks caw in the windy skies, As she sits at her lattice and shells her peas. The farmer's daughter hath ripe red lips; (Butter...brown hair; (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese J And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, Which wholly consisted of lines like these. PAET II....
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The Rhymester: Or, The Rules of Rhyme. A Guide to English Versification ...

Tom Hood - English language - 1882 - 234 pages
...Helen " of Mr. Rossetti, and the other medievalisms which Mr. CS Calverley has comically parodied : " The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair (Butter...where, Which wholly consisted of lines like these." In these instances the refrain existed with but slight usefulness. As Poe says, it is in a primitive...
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Poetical Ingenuities and Eccentricities

William T. Dobson - Alliteration - 1882 - 320 pages
...the cow said, 'I die,' and the goose said, 'Why? ' And the dog said nothing but searched for fleas. The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) ; And I've met a ballad, I can't tell where, Which mainly consisted of lines like these." WS Gilbert has...
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Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors, Volume 6

English wit and humor - 1889 - 366 pages
...cheese) She hears the rooks caw in the windy skies, As she sits at her lattice and shells her peas. The farmer's daughter hath ripe red lips ; (Butter...where, Which wholly consisted of lines like these. In the second part of this pathetic composition the poet thus describes the melancholy sequel : —...
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Fly leaves, by C.S.C.

Charles Stuart Calverley - 1884 - 154 pages
...cheese) She hears the rooks caw in the windy skies, As she sits at her lattice and shells her peas. The farmer's daughter hath ripe red lips ; (Butter...where, Which wholly consisted of lines like these. PART II. She sat with her hands 'neath her dimpled cheeks, (Butter and eggs and a pound of clieese)...
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The Rhymester, Or, the Rules of Rhyme: A Guide to English Versification ...

Tom Hood - 1884 - 228 pages
...Helen " of Mr. Rossetti, and the other mediaevalisms which Mr. CS Calverley has comically parodied : " The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair {Butter...where, Which wholly consisted of lines like these." In these instances the refrain existed with but slight usefulness. As Poe says, it is in a primitive...
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Verses and Fly Leaves

Charles Stuart Calverley - 1885 - 236 pages
...cheese) She hears the rooks caw in the windy skies, As she sits at her lattice and shells her peas. The farmer's daughter hath ripe red lips ; (Butter...where, Which wholly consisted of lines like these. PART II. She sat with her hands 'neath her dimpled cheeks, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese)...
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