As a cuckoo sang in a nearby acacia grove recently, its melodic call was punctuated by a more ominous sound, the pounding of South Korean artillery.
She offered a charming rendition of the lighthearted "Lob des Hohen Verstandes" ("Praise From an Advanced Intellect"), in which a donkey judges whether a nightingale or a cuckoo sings more beautifully, and sang expressively in the tragic "Irdische Leben" ("The Earthly Life"), in which a mother has no food for her hungry child.
In a nearby bush, cuckoos sang.
A cuckoo is singing from a distant tree and a delicious scent from some yellow flowers wafts up from the forest floor.
We got the wildflowers, and a cuckoo that sang from the housetop.
by Sharon Levy The bird on the other side of the valley sings cuckoo cuckoo and he sings back, inside, knowing what it meant to the Elizabethans.
The newly adopted faith, they imagine, is a shining, perfectly balanced system, an intricately worked clock where the cosmos turns to tell the time and the cuckoo comes out singing every Sunday.
It's been amazing to see so much wildlife flourish on a site that was previously household waste: we have cuckoos and nightingales singing, peregrines and short-eared owls hunting, skylarks, shrill carder bees and adders out in the sun – and even a pod of porpoises in the Thames estuary.
It features what is believed to be the oldest song in the English language, the 13th-century "Sumer is icumen in" (Lhude sing cuckoo!) and is referenced in poems by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton and Wordsworth.
When you do, the hanger retreats to its nook, like a cuckoo-clock bird backing away after singing its quick, dutiful alarm.
