 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who frcm her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale...early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long. Milton. MXLIII. A prison is the grave of the living, where they are shut up from the world and their... | |
 | 1829 - 512 pages
...3d scries. The flowery Hay, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrosc. Hail, bounteous May ! that dost inspire Mirth, and...early song. And welcome thee, and wish thee long. This song is said still to be sung on the top of one of the colleges in Oxford, every May morning at... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 792 pages
...many studious and contemplative years, I here give you them to dispose of. Id, Day's harbinger Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flowery...lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Id. The nomination of persons to those places being so prime and inseparable a, /lower of his crown,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pages
...green, embroidered with daffodils, hawthorns, and blue-bottles. Peacham. Hail ! bounteous >.'.•.•, that dost inspire Mirth and youth, and warm desire;...thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Milton. He loves the May-jiy, which is bred of the codworm or caddis. Walton't Angler. Like early lovers,... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1830 - 878 pages
...Morning. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads witli her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws...Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale both boast thy blessing I Thus we salute thee with our earl) song, And welcome thee, and wish th«<... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1831 - 478 pages
...George, St. Andrew, St. Patrick, and St. David. MA Y. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery...Woods and groves are of thy dressing. Hill and dale both boast thy blessing ! Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee... | |
 | Hygiene - 1831 - 410 pages
...melody, resounding from every bush and brake. In the language of the poet himself, we would exclaim, " Hail, bounteous May ! that dost inspire Mirth, and...thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing !" Pity it is, that, with the abandonment of many absurd customs and festivals of our European ancestors,... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...faire ; And Phoebus fresh as bridgroome to his mate, Came dancing forth, shaking his dewy hair.' Wartm. Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale...early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long. 10 AN EPITAPH ON THE ADMIRABLE DRAMATIC POET VV. SHAKESPEARE.* WHAT needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...itself in the world. Temple. Now the bright Mormng-starV day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the cast, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green...Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and yooth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of tby dressing, Hill and dale, doth hoast tby blessing... | |
 | 1832 - 206 pages
...swain, at thy request, I am here. MILTON'S COIIUS. Now the bright morning-star, day's harhinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery...throws The yellow Cowslip, and the pale primrose. MILTON. TO MEADOWS. '"I !.a even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth Th» freclded Cowslip, burnet,... | |
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MAY MORNING. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth,... 
