 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr with Aurora playing, As he met her once a Maying, There ou beds of violets blue, And fresh-blown roses wash'd...thee a daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful jollity ; Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles,... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 490 pages
...frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr with Aurora playing, As he met her once a Maying, There ou beds of violets blue, And fresh-blown roses wash'd...thee a daughter fair. So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful jollity ; Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...1 1 lovely Venus, at a birth, With two sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore : Or whether (as some sager sing) The frolic wind, that breathes...thee a daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...Venus at a birth, With two sUter Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore ; Or whether (as some sages sing) The frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr,...thee, a daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair; Haste tlice, nymuh, and bring with thee Jest and youthful jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles,... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...the spring, Zephyr, with Aurora playing, As he met her once a-Maying, There on beds of violets bine, And fresh-blown roses wash'd in dew, Fill'd her with...thee, a daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...playing, As he met her once a-Maying; There, on beds of violets blue, And fresh-blown roses wasn'd in dew, Fill'd her with thee, a daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonairc. Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks, and... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...The frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr, with Aurora playing, As he met her once a maying; There on beds of violets blue, And fresh-blown roses...thee a daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...Zephyr, with Aurora playing, As he met her once a maying, There on beds of vi'lets blue, And fresh blown roses wash'd in dew, Fill'd her with thee a daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Haste thee Nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles,... | |
 | William Oxberry - English literature - 1824 - 380 pages
...lie tells her, say that your parents were Venus and Bacchus, or Love and Wine ; but, As some tager sing, The frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr,...as Old May Day. This throws the latter part of the month into June, and singularly warrants the ideal season chosen by Thomson as the proper one for his... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...breathes the spring, Zephyr with Aurora playing, As he met her once a-maying, There on beds of violeta by William C. Hall Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles,... | |
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There on beds of violets blue, And fresh-blown roses wash'd in dew, Fill'd her with thee a daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. 
