 | English poetry - 1863 - 982 pages
...disdain The voiceless Form he chose to feign While fluttering in the bushes. CCXLIII TO THE CUCKOO O BLITHE new-comer ! I have heard, I hear thee and...a wandering Voice ? While I am lying on the grass Thy twofold shout I hear ; From hill to hill it seems to pass, At once far off and near. Though babbling... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 264 pages
...Sated with the summer feast Thou retir'st to endless rest. Cotcley. TO THE CUCKOO. 0 BLITHE new comer! I have heard, I hear thee, and rejoice: O Cuckoo!...a wandering voice ? While I am lying on the grass Thy twofold suout I hear; From hill to hill it seems to pass, At once far off and near. Though babbling... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1863 - 314 pages
...trouble of coming into my room, he is welcome to blow my fire as long as he likes. TO THE CUCKOO. 1. 0 blithe new-comer! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice...! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering Voice ? 2. "While I am lying on the grass Thy twofold shout I hear ; From hill to hill it seems to pass,... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1863 - 358 pages
...-Wordsworth, who addresses the bird thus: — 0, blithe new comer ! I have heard, I hear thee, and rejoice. 0, Cuckoo ! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice? While I am lying on the grass, Thy twofold shout I hear, That seems to fill the air's whole space, As loud far off as near. Though... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 368 pages
...but seldom seen. This fact is thus alluded to by the poet Wordsworth : 2. " O blithe fcew-comer* ! I have heard — I hear thee and rejoice. O cuckoo' ! shall I call thee bird', Or hut a wandering voice' ? 8. " The same that in my school-boy days I listened to — that cry — Which... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Christian literature, Early - 1863 - 226 pages
...philosophic gardens all leafless and bare, still from the depth of the desolation rose up the voice— O cuckoo, shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice ? which did not grow hoarse, like other cuckoos, but sang not unsweetly, if more faintly than before.... | |
 | Easy rhymes - Children's poetry, English - 1864 - 176 pages
...good-by frost, and snow, and rain, Charming Spring will come again. ANONIMOUS. TO THE CUCKOO. O BLITIIE new-comer ! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice...a wandering voice ? While I am lying on the grass, Thy loud note smites my ear ! Prom hill to hill it seems to pass, At once far off, and near ! I hear... | |
 | Life-lights - 1864 - 348 pages
...GEORGE HERBERT, 1593-1633. TO THE CUCKOO. 0 BLITHE new-comer ! I have heard, 1 hear thee and rejoice : 0 Cuckoo ! shall I call thee bird, ' Or but a wandering voice ? While I am lying on the grass, Thy loud note smites my ear ! From hill to hill it seems to pass, At once far off and near ! 1 hear... | |
 | Michael Bruce - Poets, Scottish - 1865 - 292 pages
...Poet of the Lakes admired exceedingly Bruce's ' Ode ' and ' Elegy.' Next then is Wordsworth's : — O blithe New-comer ! I have heard, I hear thee, and...a wandering Voice ? While I am lying on the grass, Thy two-fold shout I hear ; From hill to hill it seems to pass, At once far off, and near. Though babbling... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Outdoor life - 1865 - 116 pages
...joyful wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe, Attendants on the Spring. John Logan. TO THE CUCKOO. O BLITHE new-comer ! I have heard, I hear thee and...a wandering voice ? While I am lying on the grass Thy twofold shout I hear ; From hill to hill it seems to pass, At once far off, and near. Though babbling... | |
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O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice? While I am lying on the grass Thy twofold shout I hear, From hill to hill it seems to pass, At once far off, and near. Though babbling only to the Vale, Of sunshine and of flowers, Thou bringest... 
