 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, Lambs frisk and play,...  The Technical World Magazine - Page 1911912Full view - About this book
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1888 - 374 pages
...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...daisies kiss our feet, Young lovers meet, old wives a sunning sit, In every street these tunes our ears do greet, Cuckoo, jug -jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!... | |
 | Arthur Henry Bullen - 1889 - 290 pages
...shepherds pipe all day, And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay, Cuckoo, jug, jug, pu we, to witta woo. The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet,...every street these tunes our ears do greet, Cuckoo, jug, jug, pu we, to witta woo. Spring, the sweet spring ! A-MAYING, A-PLAYING. TRIP and go ! heave... | |
 | Arthur Henry Bullen - 1889 - 288 pages
...is true, the delicious verses in praise of spring; and what a pleasure it is to croon them over ! " The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet, Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit." But when the play was produced it was sickly autumn, and the plague was stalking through the land:... | |
 | Arthur Henry Bullen - 1889 - 286 pages
...is true, the delicious verses in praise of spring ; and what a pleasure it is to croon them over ! " The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet, Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit." But when the play was produced it was sickly autumn, and the plague was stalking through the land :... | |
 | 1890 - 580 pages
...spirit of the whole book may be summed up in the lines which introduce " The Spinster's Maying" : " The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet,...these tunes our ears do greet — Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-wee, to-witta-woo ; Spring, the sweet spring." Every lover of Chaucer knows the thrill of new life... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - 1891 - 258 pages
...That she may sun thee. Wordsworth, To the Daisy. II. intrans. To become warm or dry in the sunshine. The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet, Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit. Nash, Spring. sun2, ». See sunn. Sim-angel (sun'an'jel), и. A humming-bird of the genus Hcliangelus.... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - 1892 - 452 pages
...pipe all day, And hear we aye birds tune this merry lay, Cuckoo, jug, jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo I " The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet, Young lovers meet, old wives a sunning sit; In every street these tunes our ears do greet, Cuckoo, jug, jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1893 - 368 pages
...me — " O my country, if I keep your secrets, keep for me your heart ! " THE SPINSTER'S MAYING. " The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet,...these tunes our ears do greet — Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-wee, to-witta-woo ! Spring, the sweet Spring." AT two o'clock on May morning a fishingboat, with... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 452 pages
...shepherds pipe all day, And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay, Cuckoo, jug, jug, pu we, to witta woo. The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet, Young lovers meet, old wives a sunning sit, In every street these tunes our ears do greet, Cuckoo, jug, jug, pu we, to witta woo.... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1894 - 376 pages
...sings the cuccu, Ne swik thou never nu. Sing, cuccu, nu, Sing, cuccu. — ANON. (\^th Century). 24. SPRING. SPRING, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant...daisies kiss our feet, Young lovers meet, old wives a sunning sit, In every street these tunes our ears do greet, Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo... | |
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