...When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks, all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds (ficaria ?) of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight — The cuckoo then, on every tree Sings cuckoo." J What wonder, then, if its very name records how it blows when the cuckoo first begins...

...daisies pied,* and- violets blue, And lady-smocks 'ill silver lehite, A ml cuckoo-buds of yellow hve,b Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mod's manied men, for thui sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — 0 word of fear, Unpleasinff to a...

...Ger. Schuimblad; Dutch. Cardamindo; Ital. Cardamina; Sp. LugobiiiKres; Suss. Kzezucha polna ; Pol. " When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady's smocks...of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight." SHAKSPEAKE. THE flower which we have here chosen to name the Cuckoo-flower is one of the earliest of...

...to a welcome grave. IZAAK WALTON. V ~ ' APKI L. Now 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 now on every tree, Sings cuckoo ! cuckoo ! SHAKSPEAKE. MAY. 47 MAY. WHEN apple-trees in blossom are,...

...place at the different seasons, in 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," in middle summer, and when the year grows ancient, may see them all in the fields where he saw them....

...Shakspeare enumerates among the beauties 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 happy expression "silver white," exactly describes the tint of these flowers, some of which are nearly...

...ia the Cuckoo Song in " Love's Labour Lost" — When daises pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight. We have seen how these old writers rejoice in May, and I hope all of us will despise poor Goldy shivering,...

...Very abundant; sometimes with purple flowers. When daisies pied, and violets blue, And I/ADT-SMOCKS all silver white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight. SHAKSPEARE. Hairy Lady's-Smock (Cardamine hirmta). Hairy Tower-Mustard (Arabis hirsuta). Not common....

...everybody who loves his country rambles most — " When Daisies pied, and Violets blue, And Ladysmocks all silver white, And Cuckoobuds of yellow hue. Do paint the meadows with delight" The Life and Labours of Vincent Novella. By his Daughter, Mary Cowden Clarke. (Novello & Co.) A loving...

...Ver, the spring; the one maintained by the owl, the other by the cuckoo. Ver, begin. Боко. 106 107 y, Sir, though it was said she much resembled me, was yet of many accounted beautiful : but, thou blocks married men, for thus sings he. ;.oo; Cuckoo, cnckoo, — О word of fear, Unple&úng to a married...