Read full poem →The pine lets fall its cone;
The cuckoo shouts all day at nothing
In leafy dells alone;
Dictionary Entry
The two-note sound made by the cuckoo.
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “cuckoo”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Then, when they came before him, the King said,
‘I have seen the cuckoo chased by lesser fowl,
And reason in the chase: but wherefore now
Read full poem →Why were you born when the snow was falling?
You should have come to the cuckoo's calling,
Or when grapes are green in the cluster,
Read full poem →Touch'd by the zephyr, dances the harebell;
Cuckoo sits somewhere, singing so loud;
Two little children, seeing and hearing,
Read full poem →Skies bluer than the sparrow's egg.
And clearer than the cuckoo's call;
And such a sun! the flowers all
Read full poem →passes
The richest oven's, and loudly rings "cuckoo"
And sharply the nightingale's "tsoo, tsoo, tsoo,
Read full poem →wild air
All day long I heard a distant cuckoo calling
And, soft as dulcimers, sounds of near water falling,
Read full poem →And she has slept, trying to translate
The word the cuckoo cries to his mate
Over and over.
Read full poem →And when in June
Once more the cuckoo spoils his tune,
She laughs at sighs;