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" 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 191
1912
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I Capture the Castle

Dodie Smith - 1948 - 354 pages
...in perpetual spring." Then we remembered the rest of the poem between us and by the time we got to Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit, In every...tunes our ears do greet — Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-wool we were into the village. "Can you hear any birds obliging with those noises?" I said....
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The Key of the Kingdom: A Book of Stories and Poems for Children

Elizabeth Gmeyner - 2004 - 134 pages
...and may make country houses gay, Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all day. And we hear ay, birds tune this merry lay, Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we,...these tunes our ears do greet, Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to witta-woo! Spring! the sweet Spring! — Thomas Nash A Grace The seeds are awakened in the darkness...
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Bartlett's Poems for Occasions

Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 pages
...CYCLES And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay: OF NATURE Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo! 6\ The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet,...jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo! Spring, the sweet spring! THOMAS NASHE ENGLISH (1567-1601?) When daisies pied, and violets blue When daisies pied, and violets...
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Songs of Ourselves

Cambridge International Examinations - 2005 - 272 pages
...play, the shepherds pipe all day, And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay: Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-wee, to-witta-woo! The fields breathe sweet, the daisies...street these tunes our ears do greet: Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-wee, to-witta-woo! Spring, the sweet spring! Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-wee, to-witta-woo!] the songs of...
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Singing and Communicating in English: A Singer's Guide to English Diction

Kathryn LaBouff - 2007 - 346 pages
...these kissings worth If thou kiss not me? (Percy Bysshe Shelley / Roger Quilter, "Love's Philosophy") Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king;...jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo! Spring! The sweet Spring! (Thomas Nashe / Ivor Gurney, "Spring," from Summer's Last Will and Testament) When fishes flew and...
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The Countryside

Kathryn Hinds - 2008 - 88 pages
...traditions that recognized the turning points in the agricultural year. Spring was greeted with special joy. "The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet, / Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit," wrote poet Thomas Nashe, and: Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king; Then blooms each...
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