 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
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 126 pages
...of clover. — 69 — SPRING. SPRING, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king ; Then blossoms each thing, then maids dance in a ring. Cold doth...birds do sing, Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo. 8 fore-boding, fearing, before it comes. The palm1 and may2 make country houses gay, Lambs frisk and... | |
 | 1911 - 458 pages
...long. — MILTON. MAY 6 (A) Whistle and hoe, Sing as you go, Shorten the row By the songs you know. (B) Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant King;...birds do sing, Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo ! — THOMAS NASH. MAY? (A) O pussies dear, It's very queer That you wea*1 your furs this time of year.... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - 1882 - 376 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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 pages
...the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant kiug ; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a riug, 4th, 1S37. THE BELLS OF SHANDON. . " Sablmtn pnnfco, Fimcru pbmco, Sol to-witl n-iroo. Tho palm and May make country houses gay, Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1886 - 364 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... | |
 | 1889 - 428 pages
...dominant language of the world ij spoken, it is hoped that they will find fit audience. BOOK FIRST SPRING SPRING, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant...Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo ! The palm and n ay make country houses gay, Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all day, And we hear aye birds... | |
 | 1898 - 728 pages
...teares Adowne thy cheeke, to quenche thy thristye payne.' Where is this quotation ? 4. ' — the sweet , is the year's pleasant king ; Then blooms each thing,...birds do sing, Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo.' From what song is this verse taken ? 5. 'Now the golden morn aloft Waves her dew-bespangled wing, With... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1903 - 166 pages
...121 121 121 122 123 123 124 125 120 51 127 128 129 134 13S 138 THE GOLDEN TREASURY BOOK FIRST 1. I. SPRING Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant...to-witta-woo ! The palm and may make country houses gay, 5 Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all day, And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay, Cuckoo,... | |
 | Robert Naylor Whiteford - 1903 - 464 pages
...possess no setting to make them permanent. THOMAS NASHE 1567-1601 Optional Poem In Time Of Pestilence. SPRING Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant...birds do sing, Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo I 5 The palm and May make country houses gay ; Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all day, And... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 634 pages
...line 24. Her cuckoo cry . . . " Jug, Jug, Jug." Possibly a remembrance of Nash's spring song : — Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king...birds do sing Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo ! Other Elizabethan lyrists give the nightingale the same cry. Page 343, line 27. Mrs. Minikin. Writing... | |
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