 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...  Notes and Queries - Page 1401889Full view - About this book
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1872 - 406 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.... | |
 | John Burroughs - Birds - 1871 - 246 pages
...species apply equally well to ours : — " O blithe new-comer ! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice : O 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,... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 pages
...confess their majesty ! TO THE CUCKOO. 0 BLITHE new-comer ! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice. O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird. Or but a wandering voice ? While I am lying on the gras Thy twofold shout I hearj From hill to hill it seems to pass, At once... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - Readers - 1872 - 432 pages
...species apply equally well to ours : " O blithe new-comer ! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice : O cuckoo ! shall I call thee bird ? Or but a wandering voice? " Thrice welcome, darling of the spring ! Even yet thou art to me No bird, but an invisible thing,... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - Readers - 1872 - 168 pages
...the well. TO THE CUCKOO.— Wordsworth. O BLITHE new-comer ! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice : O 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... | |
 | Alfred Smee - Beddington (London, England) - 1872 - 750 pages
...and to be seemingly so fond of it. " O blithe new-comer ! I have heard, I hear thee, and rejoice : O cuckoo ! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering Voice?"— WORDSWORTH. Mr. Harting, in his charming book on " The Birds of Shakspeare," states that the oldest... | |
 | Words, E. S. - 1873 - 184 pages
...zeal I served my king, He would not, in mine age, have left me naked to mine enemies. Shakespeare. O cuckoo, shall I call thee bird, or but a wandering voice. Wordsworth. O, how full of briars is this workingday world. Shakespeare. 96 GRAINS OF GOLD. O, how... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - English poetry - 1873 - 408 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.... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...lonely pleasure, Sighed to think I read a hook, Only read, perhaps, by me. To the Small Celandine. O Cuckoo ! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering voice ? To the Cuchoo. One of those heavenly days that cannot die. Nutting. She was a Phantom of delight... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1874 - 596 pages
...written the finest lines to this bird — O blithe new comer ! I have heard — I hear thee and rejoice. O cuckoo ! Shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice ? The lark and nightingale, the Attic bird of some poets, the Philomel of others, are however the rivals... | |
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