Common Cuckoo Eggs

Famous quotes containing the words common, cuckoo and/or eggs:

    “It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.”
    —Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

    “When daisies pied and violets blue,
    And lady-smocks, all silver-white,
    And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
    Do paint the meadows with delight,
    The cuckoo then on every tree
    Mocks married men, for thus sings he:
    Cuckoo!
    Cuckoo, cuckoo—O word of fear,
    Unpleasing to a married ear.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Nothing is so beautiful as spring—
    When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
    Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
    Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
    The ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.”
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)