 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
 | Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - 328 pages
...— " 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." The Spring is now replete with joy. The freshness of the crystal dews, the cessation of sunny showers,... | |
 | Jewel - 1839 - 352 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 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. i star] ' Of the bright morning star.' Hen. More's Poems, p. 322. i harbinger] Shakesp. Mids. N. Dream,... | |
 | Scotland - 1839 - 892 pages
...morning stir, day's harblnger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, icho from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail I bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire : Woods and groves are of... | |
 | Baroness Rosina Bulwer Lytton Lytton - African Americans - 1839 - 260 pages
...childhood. " England, with all thy faults," and in all thy seasons, " I love thee still." \ " When spring from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose;" I like to hunt for those yellow cowslips and those pale primroses, till I fancy earth has its stars... | |
 | Songs, English - 1840 - 652 pages
...Bass.) 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... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1840 - 686 pages
...and spirits as light, Our next merry meeting ! A bumper — good night ! CHAPTER II. " The flow'ry May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose." 'Tis Flora's holiday, and in ancient times the fair goddess kept it with joyous festivity. Ah ! those... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1841 - 732 pages
...— " 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 ! " This was in the holy verse of Milton ; take other passages, of a still sweeter... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1841 - 298 pages
...thanked." " 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 !" This was in the holy verse of Milton ; take other passages, of a still sweeter... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England) - 1841 - 478 pages
...— " Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and brings with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail ! beauteous May, that doth inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Meads and groves are of... | |
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