 As if here were those cooler shades of love. Can such delights be in the street And open fields and we not see't? Come, we'll abroad; and let's obey The proclamation made for May: And sin no more, as we have done, by staying; But, my Corinna, come, let's...  The Rural Life of England - Page 160by William Howitt - 1838 - 386 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Isabella Fyvie Mayo - 1868 - 292 pages
...should good old customs die out ? Is not summer as great a blessing to us as to our forefathers ? ' Can such delights be in the street And open fields, and we not see't ? Come, we'll abroad, and let's obey The proclamation made for May." " Besides sending one to... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...bough, Or branch ; each porch, each door, ere this, An ark, a tabernacle is, Made up of white thorn neatly interwove; As if here were those cooler shades...delights be in the street, And open fields, and we not see't ? Come, we'll abroad, and let's obey The proclamation made for May : And sin no more, as we have... | |
 | Jonathan Couch - Polperro (Cornwall) - 1871 - 244 pages
...the course of his pretty pastoral lyric, " Corinna's going a Maying " : — • " each porch, each door, ere this An ark, a tabernacle is, Made up of whitethorn, neatly interwove, " and again, ** A deal of youth, ere this, is come Back, and with whitethorn laden home." The May-pole,... | |
 | Country life - 1873 - 160 pages
...trimm'd with trees ! — see how Devotion gives each house a bough Or branch ! — each porch, each door, ere this An ark, a tabernacle is, Made up of...street And open fields, and we not see 't ? Come, we'll abroad, and let's obey The proclamation made for May, And sin no more, as we have done by staying,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 600 pages
...trimm'd with trees ; see how Devotion gives each house a bough, Or branch ; each porch, each doore, ere this, An ark, a tabernacle is, Made up of white-thorn...interwove ; As if here were those cooler shades of love. And sin no more, as we have done, by staying; But, my Corinna. come, let's go a-Maying. HEBB1CK. THE... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...evergreens. Or branch ; each porch, each door, ere this, An ark, a tabernacle is, Made up of white thorn . 's obey The proclamation made for May : And sin no more, as we have done, by staying, But, my Corinna,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...a bough Or branch ; each porch, each door, ere this An ark, a tabernacle is, Made up of white thorn neatly interwove, As if here were those cooler shades...street And open fields, and we not see 't ? Come, we 'l1 abroad, and let 's obey The proclamation made for May, And sin no more, as we have done, by staying... | |
 | Robert Herrick - English poetry - 1876 - 482 pages
...in Devon and Cornwall to deck (he porches of houses with boughs of sycamore and hawthorn on Mayday. Can such delights be in the street, And open fields, and we not see't ? Come, we'll abroad ; and let's obay The Proclamation made for May : And sin no more, as we... | |
 | Robert Herrick - English poetry - 1877 - 120 pages
...green, and trimmed with trees : see how Devotion gives each house a bough Or branch : each porch, each door, ere this, An ark, a tabernacle is Made up of...street, And open fields, and we not see 't ? Come, we 'll abroad : and let 's obey The proclamation made for May : And siu no more, as we have done, by staying;... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1877 - 244 pages
...green, and trimm'd with trees : see how Devotion gives each house a bough Or branch : each porch, each door, ere this, An ark, a tabernacle is Made up of...delights be in the street, And open fields, and we not see't ? Come, we'll abroad : and let's obey The proclamation made for May : And sin no more, as we... | |
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