Cockaigne

How to use Cockaigne in a sentence

• Never comes the trader thither, never o'er the purple main Sounds the oath of British commerce, or the accents of Cockaigne.

  The Book of Humorous Verse | Various

• It is a superb land, a country of Cockaigne, as they say, that I dream of visiting with an old friend.

  The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire | Charles Baudelaire

• An old French poem on the Land of Cockaigne described it as an ideal land of luxury and ease.

  Early Reviews of English Poets | John Louis Haney

• There is a wonderful country, a country of Cockaigne, they say, which I dreamed of visiting with an old friend.

  Baudelaire: His Prose and Poetry | Charles Baudelaire

• It is, says Dixon, the common English broadsheet "turned into the dialect of Cockaigne."

  The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Volume I of 5) | Various