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 ... - Page 137edited by - 1825 - 326 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Huntington Fletcher - Literary Criticism - 1919 - 524 pages
...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,... | |
| Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - Science - 1921 - 538 pages
...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,... | |
| American fiction - 1921 - 604 pages
...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... | |
| Sir Henry John Newbolt - English literature - 1922 - 1032 pages
...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 - American literature - 1922 - 1920 pages
...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 - London - 1924 - 414 pages
...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 - English literature - 1924 - 504 pages
...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 - Rhythm - 1923 - 180 pages
...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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