 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...  The Parterre of fiction, poetry, history [&c.]. - Page 421835Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 460 pages
...hold? * 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 — bear you well — ] That is, conduct yourself with prudence. JOHNSON. 6 — justs and... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...MORNING. 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 : Woods and groves are of... | |
 | 1838 - 504 pages
...Greenwich. " Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with ber The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May 1 that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm • esire ; Woods and groves are... | |
 | Dove - 1822 - 120 pages
...MORNING. Now the hright Morning-star, Day's harhinger, Comes dancing in the East, and loads with her The flowery May ; who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primsose. Hail, heauteous May that dost inspire Mirth,' and Youth, and warmDesire; Woods and groves... | |
 | 1823 - 494 pages
...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, [spire Hail, beauteous May I that dost inMirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of... | |
 | Thomas Forster - Climatology - 1823 - 490 pages
...the bright Morning Star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flowrie May, who, from her green lap throws The yellow Cowslip and the pale Primrose, &c. Dance is used like saltus and chorus, in various significations, thus in the SONG TO SUMMEK. Hail!... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...Morning. ' 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; Woods and groves are of thy... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...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. * There is a pleasing vein of lyric sweetness and ease in Milton's use of this metre, which is that... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 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 Hone - 1825 - 842 pages
...Morning. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her ne Hail, bounteous May! that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of... | |
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