Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.
Vol. I. Early Poetry: Chaucer to Donne | | | | Songs from Plays: Winter (from Love’s Labour’s Lost) | | By William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| | | WHEN icicles hang by the wall | |
| And Dick the shepherd blows his nail | |
| And Tom bears logs into the hall | |
| And milk comes frozen home in pail, | |
| When blood is nipp’d and ways be foul, | 5 |
| Then nightly sings the staring owl, | |
| Tu-whit; | |
| Tu-who, a merry note, | |
| While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. | |
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| When all aloud the wind doth blow | 10 |
| And coughing drowns the parson’s saw | |
| And birds sit brooding in the snow | |
| And Marian’s nose looks red and raw, | |
| When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, | |
| Then nightly sings the staring owl, | 15 |
| Tu-whit; | |
| Tu-who, a merry note, | |
| While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. | | | | |
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