 | 1833 - Liczba stron: 154
...sent to Derby to toll the market bell. TTOGS in the garden, catch'em Towser ; 28 The Cuckoo is a bonny bird, She sings as she flies, She brings us good tidings, And tells us no lies. She sucks little bird's eggs To make her voice clear, And never cries Cuckoo ! Till Spring of the year. Lavender blue,... | |
 | 1844 - Liczba stron: 440
...prevalent in England. " The cuckoo's a fine bird, She sings as she flies ; She brings us good tidings, She tells us no lies. She sucks little birds' eggs To make her voice clear ; And when she sings ' cuckoo ' The summer is near." Probably the circumstance that the eggs and little... | |
 | 1844 - Liczba stron: 444
...prevalent in England. " The cuckoo's a fine bird, She sings as she flies ; She brings us good tidings, She tells us no lies. She sucks little birds' eggs To make her voice clear ; And when she sings ' cuckoo ' The summer is near." Probably the circumstance that the eggs and little... | |
 | Christopher Thomson - 1847 - Liczba stron: 432
...of a cuckoo that was there saluting the opening day—my mother singing to me the nursery rhyme— " The cuckoo is a merry bird, she sings as she flies, She brings us glad tidings, and tells us no lies. The cuckoo sings in April, The cuckoo sings in May, The cuckoo... | |
 | R. E. - 1851 - Liczba stron: 464
...is the singer. " The cuckoo's a fine bird, She sings as she flies ; She brings us good tidings, She tells us no lies. She sucks little birds' eggs To make her voice clear, Arid when she sings, " Cuckoo," The summer is near." The young bird has been arraigned of devouring... | |
 | 1855 - Liczba stron: 668
...rhyme, of which there are several slightly varying editions. That of my early recollections ran thus : " The cuckoo is a merry bird, She sings as she flies : She brings us good tidings, She tells us no lies. She sucks little birds' eggs To make her voice clear ; And when she sings ' cuckoo... | |
 | Dinah Maria Craik - 1860 - Liczba stron: 360
...as her singing as she flies, and sucking eggs, which no ornithologist has ever accused her of doing. "The cuckoo is a merry bird, She sings as she flies...She sucks little birds' eggs To make her voice clear ; And only cries cuckoo Three months in the year. First she sings in April, Then she sings in May,... | |
 | Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - 1860 - Liczba stron: 272
...as her singing as she flies, and sucking eggs, which no ornithologist has ever accused her of doing. "The cuckoo is a merry bird, She sings as she flies;...sucks little birds' eggs To make her voice clear; And only cries cuckoo First she sings in April, Then she sings in May, Then in June and July, And then... | |
 | Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - 1860 - Liczba stron: 270
...ornithologist has ever accused her of doinff. "6* "The cuckoo is a merry bird, She sings as she flics ; She brings us good tidings, And tells us no lies....She sucks little birds' eggs To make her voice clear ; And only cries cuckoo Three months in the year. First she sings in April, The she sings in May, Then... | |
 | George Kearley - 1862 - Liczba stron: 356
...— " The Cuckoo's a fine bird, She sings as she flies ; She brings us good tidings, She tells iis no lies. She sucks little birds' eggs To make her voice clear ; And when she sings ' Cuckoo * The summer is near." There is some reason to believe that this charge... | |
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The cuckoo's a fine bird, She sings as she flies, She brings us good tidings, And tells us no lies. She sucks the small birds' eggs To make her voice clear, And the more she sings " cuckoo, 
