 Tu-whit, tu-who ! a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,...  The Book of Elizabethan Verse - Page 523edited by - 1907 - 823 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1827 - 658 pages
...thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — 0 word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! Winter. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows...And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, To-who; Tu-whit, to-who, a merry note,... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1827 - 390 pages
...night, and the hoarse screeching and mystic hooting of the ominous owl.* WINTER. When icicles hanj by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,...And milk comes frozen home in pail ; When blood is nipt, and ways be foul. Then nightly sings the staring owl, 5Tu-who ; Tu-whit tu-who, a merry note.... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. WINTER, A SONG. WHF.S icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows...And milk comes frozen home in pail ; When blood is nipt, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whoo ! . Tu-whit ! tu-whoo ! a merry... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 414 pages
.... Rather at Nilus* mud Lay me stark naked, aud let the water-flies Blow me into abhorring. Id. When icicles hang by the wall. And Dick the shepherd blows...into the hall. And milk comes frozen home in pail. Id. A plague of sighing and grief ! it blows a man up like a bladder. Id. Your breath first kindled... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 420 pages
...sings he, Cuckoo ; » Cuckoo, cuckoo, — O word of fear, Unpkasing to a married ear! III. Winter. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows...into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail, t euckoo-tntds— ] ie CouUip-bude, from the French h*rbe When blood is nipp'd, and ways befoul, Then... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 500 pages
...word of fear, Unpteasing to a married ear I III. Winter. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick Me shepherd blows his nail. And Tom bears logs into the...And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, To-who; Tu-whit, to-who, a merry note,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 554 pages
...sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! III. Winter. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows...frozen home in pail, When blood is nipped, and ways befoul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, To-who ; To-whit, to-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan... | |
 | Thomas Miller - Country life - 1837 - 466 pages
...faces, and the dense rain comes streaming down our cheeks ; or, as Shakspeare describes it, " When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows...And milk comes frozen home in pail. When blood is nipt, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit, tu-whoo, a merry note, While greasy... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...in their mirth, and neeze, and swear, A merrier hour was never wasted there. 7 — ii. 1 . 76 When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows...And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit, to-who, a merry note, While... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 pages
...Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — 0 word of fear, Unpleasing to a married earl Winter. III. II i.. n isicles $ froien home in pail, When blood is nipp'd, and ways btfml. Then nightly tings the staring owl, To-who... | |
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