I shall wake some morning with my hair all dripping out of the enchanted bucket, or if not we shall both claim the 'Flitch' next September, if you can find one for us in the land of cockaigne, drying in expectancy of the revolution in Tennyson's 'Commonwealth.
"The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)"
Frederic G. Kenyon
Yet Madeleine Tonbridge had by no means come to Maumsey Abbey, at Winnington's bidding, as to a Land of cockaigne.
"Delia Blanchflower"
Mrs. Humphry Ward
When the mind ceases to believe in a Providence, it can believe in anything else; but the pious soul feels that while to dream, even in sleep, that a Cockney had written a successful tragedy, would be repugnant to reason; certainly a more successful tragedy could not be imagined, from the utter destruction of cockaigne and all its inhabitants.
"Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats"
Barnette Miller