Category: Poetry

The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes

Palgrave, Francis Turner, 1824-1897 [Editor]· 2 chapters· 84,182 words

Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing, Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!

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1. BOOK IV. 197

Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing, Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we,...

2. Act II, Scene 3: 'The grey-eyed morn smiles,' &c.--It should be added

4 6 _Time's chest_: in which he is figuratively supposed to lay up past treasures. So in Troilus, Act III, Scene 3, 'Time hath a wallet at his back' &c. In the _Arcadia_, _chest...