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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,... "
A Dictionary of Quotations from English and American Poets - Page 339
by Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 761 pages
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The Every-day Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements ...

William Hone - 1868 - 846 pages
...hi loveliness than his often quoted, yet n tiring Song on May Morning. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and...Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale both boast thy blessing 1 Thus we salute thee with our earlj song, And welcome thee, and wish thee...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...her throes ; But whether by mischance or blame Atropos for Lucina came; And with remorseless cruelty Hail bounteous May that dost inspire Mirth and youth...early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long. X. ON SHAKESPEAR. 1630. WHAT needs my Shakespear for his honour'd bones The labour of an age in piled...
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The Every-day Book: Or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports ...

William Hone - 1826 - 892 pages
...Morning. Now the bright morning star, day'i harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with lier The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The...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, znd wish tb«e...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Volume 6

John Milton - 1826 - 476 pages
...4. the pale primrose.] In the Winter's Tale, A. iv. S. 5. " Pale primroses, " That die unmarried." Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire ~ Mirth, and...dressing, Hill, and dale, doth boast thy blessing I Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long*. 10 Again, ia.Cymbeline,...
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Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain ...

John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...absence of specimens from this great classic, than as a selection from his works. SONG ON MAY MORNING. Now the bright Morning-star, Day's harbinger, Comes...early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long. EXTRACTS FROM COMUS. THE star, that bids the shepherd fold, Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the...
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The Companion, Volume 1

1828 - 482 pages
...wrote a song to May, as blithe and beautiful as the season used to be. You see the colour in her cheek. Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, Comes...doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with pur early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long. This song (profanation apart) might be now altered...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 3

Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...degrees in their ways of thinking and conversing together—Jjddison. MXLII. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and...early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long. Milton. MXLm. A prison is the grave of the living, where they are shut up from the world and their...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 3

John Timbs - 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...
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Spirit of the English Magazines

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...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art ..., Volume 9

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 792 pages
...were, the burnishing of many studious and contemplative years, I here give you them to dispose of. Id, Day's harbinger Comes dancing from the East, and leads...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,...
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