 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...  A Book of Seventeenth Century Lyrics - Page 21edited by - 1899 - 314 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Ellis - 1803 - 474 pages
...popular to require reprinting, only the two following short specimens are given of this great master. SONG On May Morning. Now the bright Morning Star,...leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throw* The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and... | |
 | 1808 - 556 pages
...to his vocation of citing paT rallel passages, and gives us the well known lines of Milton's famous song on May morning. ' Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, ' &c. To which, however, he annexes a note, stating, that ' it has not been recollected to what poet... | |
 | 1836 - 498 pages
...flowers — here was an inexhaustible fund of enjoyment ! She hailed with joy " The flowery May, that from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose." Emmeline kept a journal of the discoveries she made ; she " wreathed the whole circle of the year,"... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 354 pages
...Steevens. * 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 — — kear you well — ] That is, conduct yourself with prudence. Johnson. 6 justs and... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...thee there clad in radiant sheen, No Marchioness, but now a Queen. IX. Song. On May morning. ^ o\v 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. Hail, bounteous... | |
 | Francis Douce - 1807 - 552 pages
...home to church-j-ards. MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. 195 Aurora's harbinger is Lucifer, the morning star. " Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the East m " * It was the popular belief that ghosts retired at the approach of day. Thus the spirit of Hamlet's... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 510 pages
...embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd— she fled, and day bronght back my paio. SONG. On May Morning. "^OW 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. Hail, bounteous... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 308 pages
...And sob ; but ever live with me, And not a wave shall trouble thee ! X. SONG ON MAY MORNING. MILTON. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes...primrose. Hail, bounteous May ! that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...On her hastening funeral. TOI. jv. x 305 • ODES. 30? SONG Y MORNING Now the bright Morning-star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and...pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill, and dale, doth boast... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pages
...radiant sheen, No Marchioness, but now a Queen. SONG ON M.1Y MORNING. Now the bright Morning-star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and...pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill, and dale, doth boast... | |
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