 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1841 - 732 pages
...favourite, and among other extracts from him, was the sonnet in the Nativity, on May Morning : — " Now the bright Morning Star, day's harbinger, Comes...cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail ! bounteous May ! " This was in the holy verse of Milton ; take other passages, of a still sweeter character, in prose,... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1841 - 298 pages
...dispensed, And she no whit encumbered with her store, Antl t.*en the giver would be better thanked." " Now the bright Morning Star, day's harbinger, Comes...cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail ! bounteous May !" This was in the holy verse of Milton ; take other passages, of a still sweeter character, in prose,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 pages
...the pale primrose. Hail I beauteous May, that doth inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire; Meads and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth...early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long." To all which circumstances may be added that the said John Milton is affirmed (perhaps with a view... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 384 pages
...than Burns, and with the whole of which the slenderest excuse will justify us in adorning our pages. " Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes...early song, And welcome thee and wish thee long." In their own sphere, the verses with which Burns begins the song under consideration, seem to promise... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 380 pages
...than Burns, and with the whole of which the slenderest excuse will justify us in adorning our pages. " Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes...early song, And welcome thee and wish thee long." In their own sphere, the verses with which Burns begins the song under consideration, seem to promise... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...With thee there clad in radiant sheen, No marchioness, but now a queen. ODES. SONG ON MAY MORNING. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes...Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thce with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long. I MISCELLANIES. ANNO «TATIS XIX. At... | |
 | Charles Cowden Clarke - 1843 - 264 pages
...fruit was set ; were the last that occupied them in the sprightly month of APRIL. CHAPTER V MAY. " Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes...throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail, beauteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing,... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 70 pages
...sings ; and for ever sings he-- " I love my Love, and my Love loves me ! " 46 SONG— ON MAY MORNING. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes...song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long. MILTON. CASABIANCA.* THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...And nil about the courtly stable Bright-haruees'd angels sit in order serviceable. On May Morning. (" , , aud dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early aong, And welcome thee, and wish... | |
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1844 - 530 pages
...was coming, and sent up hundreds of songs of joy. Wow the bricht Morning-Star, Day'n harbinger, Comee dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery...pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May. that dost inspire Mirlh, nnd youlh, and warm desire : Woods nnd groves ore of thy dressing; Hill and dale, doth boast... | |
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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,... 
