 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
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 pages
...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 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... | |
 | William Hone - 1826 - 902 pages
...bright morning star, day'i harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with lier 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... | |
 | William Hone - 1826 - 882 pages
...the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery th hurrow and with shame. " Prince Francesco Caraccioli, a younger branch of Hail, bounteous May ! that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire; Woods and groves are of... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 476 pages
...The Cuckow, 1607. Of the east. " Through which the daies bright king came dancing out." The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. I must add a beautiful passage from P. Fletcher's Locusts, 1627, p. 96. " The lovely Spring " Comes... | |
 | 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 Fitzgerald Pennie - 1827 - 672 pages
...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 ushered in with a lively peal from the three deep-toned bells of the village tower,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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