 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, and...  Imagination and fancy; or Selections from the English poets, with critical ... - Page 122by Leigh Hunt - 1845Full view - About this book
 | 1825 - 424 pages
...May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May I that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 476 pages
...youth, and warm desire; Woods and groves are of thy 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, A, iv. S. 2. " The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose." T. WARTON.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1831 - 478 pages
...inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; 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 long. Milton. THIS month, according to some, received its name from Maia, the brightest of the Pleiades,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...Melancholy, give, And I with thee will choose to live. SOXG ON MA Y MORNIXG. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and...early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long. STANZAS FROM "HYMN ON THE SATll'lTY." IT was the winter wild, While the heaven-born child AH meanly... | |
 | 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... | |
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