 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
 | English poetry - 1859 - 116 pages
...pies, do lovers prove . They love indeed, who quake to say they love. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. '\ : ODE. 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... | |
 | William Allingham - English poetry - 1860 - 316 pages
...land and ocean without rest ; They also serve who only stand and wait." MU.TON. 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 primrose.... | |
 | Samuel Stillman Greene - English language - 1860 - 276 pages
...himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, comes dancing from the east. All the triumphs of truth and genius over prejudice and power, in every country, and in every age,... | |
 | John Tulloch - Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691 - 1861 - 536 pages
...sonnet on " May Morning," which opens this series of his poems, strikes the key-note of the whole : — "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.... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...danced as they had ravish'd been ; And Cupid's self about her flutter'd all in green. SPENSER. — an 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... | |
 | Simon Kerl - English language - 1862 - 430 pages
...his horrid crew Lay vanquished, rolling in the fiery gulf, Confounded though immortal". — Milton. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east.* — Milton. This is a favorite construction with Milton, and occurs often in Paradise Lost. * This... | |
 | Popular poetry - English poetry - 1862 - 246 pages
...one by one ; In a language of beauty they seem all to say — And now it is May ! it is May ! 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.... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - Children's poetry - 1862 - 372 pages
...stain'd the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear. W. Blake ON MA Y 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 the pale... | |
 | Helen Arnold - English language - 1906 - 112 pages
...Next Marmion marked the Celtic race, Of different language, form, and face, A various race of men. 28. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east. 29. Each at his back — a slender store — His forty days' provision bore. 30. A blithesome brother... | |
 | Stratton Duluth Brooks - Readers - 1906 - 268 pages
...Forever singing, as they shine, " The Hand that made us is divine." — JOSEPH ADDISON. * 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 pale primrose.... | |
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