 | William Hone - 1868 - 846 pages
...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 warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale... | |
 | 1828 - 482 pages
...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 warm desire ! Woods and groves are of thy dressing; Hill, and dale,... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...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 warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale... | |
 | 1829 - 512 pages
...from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrosc. Hail, bounteous May ! that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods...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 Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...frcm her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose; Hail ! bounteous May that dost inspire Mirth and youth, and warm desire; Woods and...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... | |
 | Henry Phillips - 1829 - 398 pages
...often heard talk of the Majesty of the people, and supposed these were some of the young princes." Hail! bounteous May, that doth inspire Mirth and youth,...thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. In eastern nations flowers and perfumes have been considered as one of the indispensable enjoyments... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pages
...embroidered with daffodils, hawthorns, and blue-bottles. Peacham. Hail ! bounteous >.'.•.•, that dost inspire Mirth and youth, and warm desire; Woods and...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,... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...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 warm desire; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale... | |
 | William Hone - 1830 - 878 pages
...bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads witli 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 warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale... | |
 | 1831 - 410 pages
...and brake. In the language of the poet himself, we would exclaim, " Hail, bounteous May ! that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods...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,... | |
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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. Hail bounteous May that dost inspire Mirth and youth, and warm desire;... 
