Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu ! Groweth sed, and bloweth med, And springth the wude nu, Sing cuccu ! " Awe bleteth after lomb, Lhouth after calve cu ; Bulluc sterteth, bucke verteth, Murie sing cuccu ! "Cuccu, cuccu, well singes thu, cuccu, Ne... Lays of the Minnesingers Or German Troubadours of the Twelfth and Thirteenth ... - Pagina 133geredigeerd door - 1825 - 326 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1917 - 582 pagina’s
...they are written in a distinct Wessex dialect, probably that of Wiltshire. They are as follows : — " Sumer is icumen in, Lhud-e sing cuc-cu, Groweth sed and bloweth med And springth the wod-e nu. Sing cuo-cu. Aw-e1 bleteth after lomb, Lhouth after cal-ve2 cu. Bulluc sterteth,... | |
| Robert Huntington Fletcher - 1919 - 524 pagina’s
...Cuckoo Song of the thirteenth century, intended to be sung in harmony by four voices : A SCRIBE page 47' Sumer is icumen in; Lhude sing, cuccu ! Groweth sed and bloweth med And springth the wde nu. Sing, cuccu ! Awe bleteth after lomb, Lhouth after calve cu. Bulluc sterteth,... | |
| 1921 - 604 pagina’s
...fresh young life of spring, show no finer appreciation of nature than that dainty round : — • " Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu! Groweth sed, and bloweth med, And spring'th the wude nu — Sing cuccu ! " Would not the English poets of the Middle Ages lookjjwith... | |
| Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1921 - 538 pagina’s
...here for the benefit of those who are not familiar with it : — SUMER IS ICUMEN IN. (About 1250.) Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu ! Groweth sed, and bloweth med, And springth the wude nu. Sing cuccu ! Awe bleteth after lomb, Lhouth after calve cu ; Bulluc sterteth,... | |
| Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1922 - 1032 pagina’s
...passages from Sir John Mandeville, and other fragments. POETRY BEFORE CHAUCER CUCKOO SONG (c. 1226) SUHER is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu! Groweth sed, and bloweth med, And springth the wude nu— Sing cuccu! Awe bleteth after lomb Lhouth after calve cu ; Bulltic sterteth,... | |
| Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - 1922 - 1920 pagina’s
...will some day find a place among the little masterpieces. HENRY VAN DYKE. SONGS OF NATURE CUCKOO SONG SUMER is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu ! Groweth sed, and bloweth med, And springth the wude nu — Sing cuccu ! 5 Awe bleteth after lomb, Lhouth after calve cu; Bulluc sterteth,... | |
| George Byron Gordon - 1924 - 414 pagina’s
...the people when they went a maying — with pipers going before and dancing all the way they sang: Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu Groweth sed and bloweth med, And springth the wde nu Sing cuccu. Awe bleteth after lomb, Llouth after calve cu, Bulluc sterteth, bucke... | |
| George Sampson - 1924 - 504 pagina’s
...cuckoo, which sings of sorrow in The Seafarer, is here (and henceforth) the herald of spring delights. Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu; Groweth sed, and bloweth med, And springth the wde nu. Sing, cuccu ! Sing, cuccu, nu! Sing, cuccu! Sing, cuccu! Sing, cuccu, nu! bloweth,... | |
| Amos Reno Morris - 1923 - 180 pagina’s
...Cuckoo Song of near the same date, we have at last modern English verse at something near its best : Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu ! Groweth sed and bloweth med, And springeth the wude nu. From this point on, there is nothing but elaboration and experiment. And whatever the prosodists... | |
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