 | English poets - 1801 - 382 sidor
...Jove would swear Juno but an yEthiop were; And deny himself for Jove, SPUING, A SONG. WHEN dairies pied and violets blue, And lady-smocks, all silver white, And cuckoo buds, of yellow hue, Do paint die meadows with delight, The cuckow then on every tree Mocks married men,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1807 - 318 sidor
...Ver, the spring; the one maintain'd by the owl, the other by the cuckoo. Ver, begin. SONG. Spring. When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver white, And cuckoo buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men,... | |
 | George Ellis - 1811 - 472 sidor
...Hel. 3 " Alas my hand hath." Eng. Hel. * These Spring. A Song, [At the end of " Love's Labour Lost."] WHEN daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver white, And cuckoo-buds, of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then on every tree Mocks... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 sidor
...spirit, And I shall find you empty ofthat fault, Right joyful of your reformation. Spring. A Song. When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver white, And cuckow buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight: The cuckow, then, on every tree, Mocks... | |
 | 1819 - 426 sidor
...notices the lady-smock, and the ' cuckoo bud of yellow hue,' which is probably the crowfoot or buttercup. When daisies pied and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver white, And cuckoo buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight. are found on the bushes, palings, and outsides of... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1820 - 432 sidor
...proportion. We all know the song, containing that fine line, fresh from the most brilliant of pallets : — When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver white' And ciickoo-buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with -delight. We owe a long debt of gratitude to... | |
 | John Aikin - 1823 - 162 sidor
...spring. G. I remember some pretty lines in a song about spring, in which ladysmock is mentioned :— When daisies pied, and violets blue, And ladysmocks all silver white ; And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight. T. They are Shakspeare's. You see he... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 882 sidor
...Ver, the spring; the one maiutain'd by the owl, the other by the cuckoo. Vcr, begin. SONG. I. Spring. at, and smell somewhat strong of her strong displeasure. Clo. Truly, fortune's displea of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks 'married men,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1824 - 312 sidor
...vernal flowers : Shakspeare's Song of Spring bursts irrepressibly from our lips as we step on them : " When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver white. And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then on every tree — " "... | |
 | Henry Phillips - 1829 - 398 sidor
...sunne, for there it woll unclose. Shakspeare celebrates this flower in his favourite song to Spring. When Daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver white, And cuckoo buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight. Love's Labour's Lost. The lines of Montgomery, as... | |
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When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight... 
