 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...  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 448edited by - 1840Full view - About this book
 | English poets - 1801 - 454 pages
...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... | |
 | George Ellis - 1803 - 476 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... | |
 | 1836 - 498 pages
...flowers — here was an inexhaustible fund of enjoyment ! She hailed with joy " The flowery May, that from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose." Emmeline kept a journal of the discoveries she made ; she " wreathed the whole circle of the year,"... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 354 pages
...Steevens. * That strew the green lap of the new-come spring?] So, in Milton's Song on May Morning: " — who from her green lap throws " The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose." Steevens. 5 — — kear you well — ] That is, conduct yourself with prudence. Johnson. 6 justs and... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...morning. ^ o\v the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flow'ry May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that doth inspire Mirth and youth and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 510 pages
...Morning. "^OW the bright morning star, day's harbinger, -^ Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flow'ry 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 308 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...the bright Morning-star, Day's harbinger. Comes dancing from the cast, 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 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... | |
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