icumen

I think this is the one that has "Winter is icumen in -- lhude sing goddam..."

Making Light: Open thread 136 2010

Since it's spring cold, grey, sunless, but still spring as I write, here are two poems for the price of one to brighten your post-Easter week: the 13th-century Cuckoo Song, "Sumer is icumen in", and the 19th-century "Rondeau" by Leigh Hunt.

Archive 2009-04-01 Rus Bowden 2009

I tell the up-north reporter that in the late 1960s, I was one of the children singing“Sumer is icumen in, lhude sing cuccul” without having a clue what the words meant and anyway concentrating on weaving a clumsy pink and green crepe paper braid around the May Pole.

Dream State Diane Roberts 2008

The work is illustrated with several specimens of the early style of writing music, the first being an illuminated engraving and fac-simile of the song, "Sumer is icumen in," -- the earliest secular composition, in parts, known to exist in any country, its origin being traced back to

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various

Forsete, monk of Reading Abbey, date 1225, and entitled "Sumer is icumen in," the cuckoo is also extolled --

A History of Nursery Rhymes Percy B. Green

Al of heaðene cun icumen ⁊ akennet. ⁊ hire fleshliche feader affrican hehte. þe heande ⁊ heascede mest men þe weren cristene. ⁊ droh ha {m} þurh derue pinen to deaðe.

Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

Þa þe non wes icumen {;}   þa weoren Peohtes ouer {} cumen.

Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

Ah of eou ich wulle iwiten {;}   þurh soðen eouwer wurð {} scipen. whæt cnihte {n} ȝe seon {;}   ⁊ whænnenen ȝe icumen beon.

Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

It is, of course, the theme of “Sumer is icumen in.”

Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922

But the summer was icumen in; and what were consuls and Senate for?

The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908