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" 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. "
Laconics, Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors: In Three Volumes - Page 337
1856
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London, Volume 1

Charles Knight - 1841 - 478 pages
...tendencies — " Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and brings with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail ! beauteous May, that doth inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Meads and groves are of thy...
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Essays

Leigh Hunt - 1841 - 378 pages
...changed it in the lines that follow these, which are altogether in the taste of our author : Itail bounteous May ! that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire: Woods and (rroveu arc of thy dressing ; Hill and dale doth boast Then a long line comes too seriously in —...
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Environs of London: Western Division

John Fisher Murray - 1842 - 322 pages
...THAMES. Ts'ofr the bright morning star, day's harbinger. Comes dancing from the cast, and leads with ber The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Bail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth and youth and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy...
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The Lady's Book of Flowers and Poetry: To which are Added, a Botanical ...

Lucy Hooper - 1842 - 304 pages
...When fragrant orchards to the roseate morn Unfold their bloom, in heaven's own colours dyed. MICKLE. THE flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow Cowslip and the pale Primrose. MILTON. WHERE the bee sucks, there lurk 1 ; In a Cowslip's bell I lie: There I couch when owls do cry....
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Come Hither: A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Young of All ..., Volume 1

1923 - 748 pages
...the bright morning Star, Dayes harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The Flowry May, who from her green lap throws The yellow Cowslip...bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth and youth and young desire, Woods and Groves, are of thy dressing, Hill and Dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we...
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An Anthology of Pure Poetry

George Moore - 1973 - 194 pages
...resounding grace to all heaven's harmonies. John Milton ON MAY MORNING NOW the bright morning-Star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the eaSt, and...cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May I that doSt inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and...
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A Critical History of English Literature: Shakespeare to Milton, Volume 2

David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...simpler to be played on his native reed, and this may refer to the cheerful fragment "On May Morning": Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes...lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Or perhaps the reference is to "L'Allegro" and "II Penseroso," which are now thought to have been written...
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A Milton Encyclopedia, Volume 8

William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1978 - 226 pages
...mixt power employ (SolMus 3) Wisely hast shun'd THE BROAD | WAY AND the green (Sonn 9. 2) The Flowry May, who from her green lap throws The yellow Cowslip, and THE PALE | PRIMROSE. (May 3-4) Prosodists of later centuries were to criticize Milton for writing thus; but indeed he had...
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Quintet: A Five-play Cycle Drawn from The Children of Pride

Robert Manson Myers - 1991 - 262 pages
...see you do not like the month of May, CARRIE: Alas, I do not like the month of May. JOSEPH (readingl: Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes...pale primrose. Hail bounteous May that dost inspire Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with...
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Miscellaneous Poems ; Paradise Regain'd ; & Samson Agonistes

John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...Star, Daves harbinger, Comes dancing from the EasJ, ana leads with her The Flowry May, who from l>er green lap throws The yellow Cowslip, and the pale Primrose. Hail bounteous May that aoft injjpire Mirth and youth, and warm desire, Woods and Groves, are of thy dressing, Hill and Dale,...
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