 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pages
...BARNFIELD. Author of several poetical volumes, published between 1594 and 1598. ADDRESS TO THE NIGHTINGALE. As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May,...myrtles made; Beasts did leap, and birds did sing, Trees did grow, and plants did spring; Everything did banish moan, Save the nightingale alone. She,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 pages
...rare excellence, that it was, for a long time, ascribed to Shakspeare. ADDRESS TO THE NIGHTINGALE. As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May,...myrtles made ; Beasts did leap and birds did sing, Trees did grow, and plants did spring; Every thing did banish moan, Save the Nightingale alone. She,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...good store of flowers stuck round about her winding-sheet." THE MILKMAID'S MOTHER'S ANSWER. If all the world and love were young, And truth in every...pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love. But time drives flocks from field to fold, When rivers rage and rocks grow cold; Then Philomel... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 500 pages
...mind may move, Then live with me, and be my love. THE NYMPH'S REPLY. BT SIR WALTER RALEIGH. IF all the world and love were young, And truth in every...pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love. But time drives flocks from field to fold ; When rivers rage, and rocks grow cold, Then Philomel... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 446 pages
...equally celebrated, bearing the signature of " Ignoto : " — THE NYMPH'S REPLY TO THE SHEPHEED. If all the world and love were young, And truth, in every...pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love. Time drives the flocks from field to fold, When rivers rage, and rocks grow cold ; And Philomel... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 458 pages
...equally celebrated, bearing the signature of " Ignoto : " — THB NYMPH'S REPLY TO THE SHEPHERD. If all the world and love were young, And truth in every...These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thce, and be thy love. Time drives the flocks from field to fold, When rivers rage, and rocks grow... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 432 pages
...with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove That lulls and valleys, dales and iields, And all the craggy mountains yields. There will we...pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love b. • These four lines are thus given in Mr. Lysons's manuscript : — " Think women love... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 624 pages
...bed of roses, With a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroider'd all \vith leaves of myrtle. A belt of straw and ivy buds, With...pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love b. • These four lines are thus given in Mr. I ysons's manuscript: — " Think women love... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 pages
...thorny brambles and embracing bushes, As fearful of him, part ; through whom he rushes. 103. Birds. As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May,...myrtles made, Beasts did leap, and birds did sing, Trees did grow, and plants did spring ; Every thing did banish moan, Save the nightingale alone : She,... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1853 - 646 pages
...Music has given the early stanzas a wide celebrity, which the moral of the later ones equally deserve. As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting...myrtles made ; Beasts did leap and birds did sing, 'Frees did grow, and plants did spring ; Every thing did banish moan Save the nightingale alone ; She,... | |
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The rest complains of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields. A honey tongue, a heart of gall Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. 
