Hidden fields
Books Books
" When icicles hang by the wall And Dick the shepherd blows his nail And Tom bears logs into the hall And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy... "
The Magazine of the beau monde; or, Monthly journal of fashion [afterw.] The ... - Page 10
1834
Full view - About this book

Shakespeare & the Uses of Comedy

Joseph Allen Bryant - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 300 pages
...instead, learning thereby to accept rather than condemn the world of people and things: When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail; When blood is nipp'd, and ways be [foul]....
Limited preview - About this book

The Study of Primary Education: A Source Book. The curriculum. Vol. 2

Brenda Lofthouse - Education - 1990 - 398 pages
...darkness He called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. (Genesis). When icicles hang by the wall. And Dick the shepherd blows his nail. And Tom bears logs into the hall. And milk comes frozen home in pail; When blood is nipped and ways be foul....
Limited preview - About this book

The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...NoP; OAEL-1; OBEV; OBSC; PBBP; PoEL-2; PoRA; Prim; SeCePo; TEP; TrGrPo; UnPo 101 When icicles hang n the fire and was burnt to ashes; (1. 1-4) 4 I haven't t bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail. When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul....
Limited preview - About this book

The Subtext of Form in the English Renaissance: Proportion Poetical

229 pages
...sings he, "Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo" — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail; When blood is nipp'd, and ways be [foul]...
Limited preview - About this book

Thornes Classic Poetry: A Practical Guide for Key Stage 3

John Foster, Gordon Dennis - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1995 - 136 pages
...Caesar, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet. About the poem When icicles hang by the wall When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail; When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul,...
Limited preview - About this book

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: О word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! WINTER. When icicles hang ough for such a present. bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipt and ways be foul,...
Limited preview - About this book

English Matters

Susan Duberley - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1996 - 138 pages
...using the sound effects suggested in the script. TAKE THE WEATHER WITH YOU 5.6 Winter When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen in the pail; When blood is nipped, and ways be foul,...
Limited preview - About this book

The Triumph of Augustan Poetics: English Literary Culture from Butler to Johnson

Blanford Parker - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 282 pages
...the heat o' the sun, Nor the furious winter's rages; (Cymbeline, iv. 2. 258-259) When Icicles hang by the wall And Dick the Shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul,...
Limited preview - About this book

The Classic Hundred Poems: All-time Favorites

William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...sonnet, fourteen pentameter lines rhyming ababcdcdefefyg. When Icicles Hang by the Wall When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul,...
Limited preview - About this book

The Genius of Shakespeare

Jonathan Bate - Drama - 1998 - 420 pages
...The allusion is to that 'most English' song at the end of Lcve's Labour's Last: 'When icicles hang by the wall / And Dick the shepherd blows his nail / And Tom bears logs into the hall'. Shakespeare is brought into his own work, imagined conversing with Tom....
Limited preview - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF