...are boisterous vehement to a proverb. APRIL. Now daisies pied, and violets blue* And ladies smocks all silver white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight: The cuckoo now on every tree Sings cuckoo—cuckoo. The distinguishing characteristic of the -weather during...

...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...of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight. We owe a long debt of gratitude to the daisy ; and we take this opportunity of discharging a millionth...

...composition of Beaumont and Fletcher ! ] SONG IN LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST. SHAKSPEARE. Born 1564— Died 1616. When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks...yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then on every tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — O word...

...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...of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight. We owe a long debt of gratitude to the daisy ; and we take this opportunity of discharging a millionth...

...Ver, the spring ; the one maintained by the owl, the other by the cuckoo. Ver, begin. SONG. I. Spring. When daisies pied, and violets blue, •And lady-smocks all silver white, And cuckoo-buds l of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo, then, on every tree, Mocks married...

...was common to both; and maidens could cull their May garlands to the minstrel's theme, as they sang " When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks...yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo, cuckoo !" " The azured harebell",...

...hear the cuckoo sing. Shakspeare thus alludes to the song of the cuckoo and the beauty of 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...

...MONTHS. (A Series of Sketches from the Mountains J BY WOJ BARK KB, B 8 Q., MAI No. IV.— APRIL. " When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks...yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then on every tree Mocks married men, for thus sings he : Cuckoo, Cuckoo, cuckoo — O word...

...to be the wild Yellow Ranunculus. He expressly distinguishes his Cuckoo-buds from this flower — " When Daisies pied, and Violets blue, And Lady-smocks...of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight." Carduus. — From xtipw, to abrade, from its roughness. THEIS derives it from ard, in Celtic, a point...

...spring, in which lady's-smock is mentioned. "When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady's-smocks all silver white ; And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight. " T. They are Shakspeare's. You see he gives the name of cuckoo-bud to some other flower, a yellow...