cuckoo

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

—Hemingway, Ernest Millar

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!

—Nashe,Thomas

So have I heard the cuckoo's parting cry, From the wet field, through the vext garden trees, Come with the volleying rain and tossing breeze: 'The bloom isgone, and with the bloom go I.'

—Arnold, Matthew

And hear the pleasant cuckoo, loud and longö The simple bird that thinks two notes a song.

—Davies,W(illiam) H(enry)

Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu! Groweth sed, and bleweth med, And springth the wude nu. See also Pound 664:27.

—Anonymous

The merry cuckoo, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.

—Spenser, Edmund

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

—Kesey, Ken Elton

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshedöthey produced Michelangelo, Leonardo daVinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.

—Welles, (George) Orson

A rainbowand a cuckoo's song May never come together again; May never come This side the tomb.

—Davies,W(illiam) H(enry)

   The Attic warbler pours her throat, Responsive to the cuckoo's note, The untaught harmony of spring.

—Gray,Thomas

This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly: And the little brown nightingale bills his best, And they sit outside at 'TheTravellers' Rest', And maids come forth sprig-muslin drest, And citizens dream of the south and west, And so do I.

—Hardy,Thomas