 Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king ; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring. Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing. Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we. to-witta-woo ! The palm and May make country houses gay.  The Technical World Magazine - Page 1911912Full view - About this book
 | Coventry Patmore - 1862 - 372 pages
...dapple grey, She rode till she came to her father's hall, Three hours before it was day. Old Ballad cxi SPRING Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant...Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo ! The palm and the may make country houses gay, Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all day, And we hear aye... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 264 pages
...where we do walk; Yet in the morning may be seen Where we the night before have been. SI'KING. SPBING, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king; Then...Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo ! The palm and the May make country houses gay, Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all day, And we hear aye... | |
 | Sidney H. Morse, Joseph B. Marvin - 1866 - 560 pages
...hundreds of years ago Nash. walking here, heard them at, and caught in the springes of a lyric : — " Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant King...birds do sing, Cuckoo, jug,jug, pu,we, to,witta,woo ! " And was it not this very morning that old Drummond of Hawthornden saw " ensaffroning sea and air... | |
 | 1869 - 444 pages
...dominant language of the world is spoken, it is hoped that they will find fit audience. BOOK FIRST SPRING SPRING, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant...birds do sing, Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo 1 . The palm and may make country houses gay, Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all day, And... | |
 | 1868 - 588 pages
...feathers to the sun, and pours out his little soul in melody. The piece is by T. Nash. Here it is entire: "Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant...to-witta-woo ! "The palm and May make country houses ply. Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all dsy, And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay, Cuckoo,... | |
 | 1871 - 378 pages
...grey. She rode till she came to her father's hall, Three hours before it was day. CXI SPRING Old Ballad Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king;...Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo ! The palm and the may make country houses gay, Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all daj And we hear aye birds... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1875 - 168 pages
...SPRING, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a "ng, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing, Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo ! , The palm ar1d may make country houses gay, 5 Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all day, And we hear aye... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 pages
...; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone, — We frolic while 't is May. THOMAS GRAY. SPRING, THE SWEET SPRING. SPRING, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant...birds do sing, Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo I The palm and may make country houses gay, Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all day, And we... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1876 - 370 pages
...Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.' Nash greets the spring in another tone and measure : — 'Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant...birds do sing Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo ! ' These extracts are as dissimilar as can be, and yet in both of them we may observe a characteristic... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 242 pages
...hay, Smelling of clover. SPRING. SPRING, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king ; Then blossoms each thing, then maids dance in a ring. Cold doth...do sing, Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo. The palm1 and may2 make country houses gay, Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all day, And we hear... | |
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