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... Illustrations of Shakespeare, and of Ancient Manners: With Dissertations on ... - Page 201by Francis Douce - 1807Full view - About this book
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1841 - 732 pages
...favourite, and among other extracts from him, was the sonnet in the Nativity, on May 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.... | |
| John Wilson - 1842 - 384 pages
...than Burns, and with the whole of which the slenderest excuse will justify us in adorning our 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.... | |
| John Wilson - 1842 - 380 pages
...than Burns, and with the whole of which the slenderest excuse will justify us in adorning our 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.... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...With thee there clad in radiant sheen, No marchioness, but now a queen. ODES. SONG ON MAY 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... | |
| Charles Cowden Clarke - Children's literature - 1843 - 264 pages
...fruit was set ; were the last that occupied them in the sprightly month of APRIL. CHAPTER V MAY. " 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.... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 70 pages
...sings ; and for ever sings he-- " I love my Love, and my Love loves me ! " 46 SONG— ON MAY 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... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1844 - 468 pages
...and laughed with him. And woman, bright woman, was the nucleus of all the stories ! CHAPTER XVI. " Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east." — MILTON. HITHERTO Ernest had never met with any mind that had exercised a strong influence over... | |
| Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...celestial consort, us unite, To live with him, and sing in endless morn of light I SONG. ON MAT MORNING. Now 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 pale primrose.... | |
| English fiction - 1846 - 590 pages
...Trees did grow and plants did spring : Every thing did banish moan. SHAKSPERE. BARNEFIELD. (1598.) Now 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... | |
| Noble Butler - English language - 1846 - 268 pages
...the mind Of desultory man, studious of change And pleased with novelty, might bo indulged.— Cowptr. 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.—... | |
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