CUCKOO

Related Subjects: Birds, Spring

1. As scabbed as a cuckoo.—Proverb
   

2. The cuckoo builds not for himself.—SHAKESPEARE, Antony and Cleopatra
   

3. 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.—SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost
   

4. O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird,
   Or but a wandering voice?—WORDSWORTH, To the Cuckoo