Spotted Cuckoo

Famous quotes containing the words spotted and/or cuckoo:

“Two feathered guests from Alabama, two together,
And their nest, and four light-green eggs spotted with brown,
And every day the he-bird to and fro near at hand,
And every day the she-bird crouched on her nest, silent, with bright
eyes,
And every day I, a curious boy, never too close, never disturbing
them,
Cautiously peering, absorbing, translating.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

“He was but as the cuckoo is in June,
Heard, not regarded.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)