 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...Marchioness, but now a queen. SONG.— ON MAY MORNING. Now the bright Moming-star, day's harbinger, Coraes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throwt The yellow cowslip, and the paie primrose. Hail, bounteous May, thou dost inspire A Mirth, and... | |
 | 1825 - 424 pages
...the beauties of which have been so much celebrated ; and Milton has the following beautiful song on May morning : — Now the bright morning star, day's...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 pages
...to be, concise and energetical. — MASON. Ver. 84. In thy green lap was Nature's Darling laid.] " The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose." Milton's Song on May Morning. — GRAY. Nature's Darling occurs in Cleveland's Poems, p. 314. ' ' Here... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 560 pages
...earldoms of Rutland, Kent, and Huntingdon.' — Holinshed. 4 So in Milton's Song on May Morning : — ' who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose.' 5 The seals of deeds were formerly impressed on slips or labels of parchment appendant to them. Yorh.... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 476 pages
...lovely Spring " Comes daunting on; the primrose strewes her way, " And sattin violet." TODD. Ver. 3. The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip &c.] So Niccols, in the description just cited, of May. • " And from her fruitful lap eche day she... | |
 | John Fitzgerald Pennie - 1827 - 672 pages
...the grove-embowered cottages of L . Aut! first, May -day, — that happy, happy anniversary, when " The bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowing May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose," was constantly... | |
 | 1827 - 510 pages
...language. Milton thus exquisitely describes a May mornrng : Now the bright morning star, day's harhinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her preen lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth,... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1828 - 414 pages
...the preservation he had experienced.* MAY^DAY. MAYING IJJ nENRY THE EIGHTH'S REIGN.— EVIL MAY DAY. Now the bright morning Star, day's harbinger, Comes...from the east, and leads with her The flowery May : — MILTON. May-Day, which in the " olden times," was consecrated both to the Goddess Flora, and... | |
 | 1828 - 454 pages
...dancing from the east, and leads with her t'i The flo%very May, who from her green lap throws lf-j* The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire i •"• ', ' Mirth, and youth, and warm desire I .>'.•'.:' a, yM ,».'"* • . Woods and groves... | |
 | 1820 - 398 pages
...of his youthful years — the outpourings of his virgin fancies — the May of his intellect, which from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose: it is indeed pregnant with all the rank luxuriance of a rich and unturned soil. It displays prodigious... | |
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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. 
