 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
 | 1825 - 424 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 I that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of... | |
 | William Hone - 1826 - 882 pages
...Morning. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her ful story with 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... | |
 | William Hone - Calendars - 1868 - 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... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1826 - 892 pages
...Morning. Now the 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 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 Milton - 1826 - 476 pages
...lovely Spring " Comes daunting on; the primrose strewes her way, " And sattin violet." TODD. Ver. 3. The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip &c.] So Niccols, in the description just cited, of May. • " And from her fruitful lap eche day she... | |
 | 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.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1828 - 460 pages
...cheek. 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... | |
 | Books - 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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