 | Christmas - 1852 - 232 pages
...should have my presence again next 'Jjth of December. I»iti3.''* MERRY CHRISTMAS. GEOKGE WITHER. O, now is come our joyful'st feast ; Let every man be...wine, And let us all be merry. Now all our neighbours' chimneys smoke. And Christmas blocks are burning ; , Their ovens they with baked meats choke, And all... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...either: 'Cause to be of one possess'd, Bair'd the hope of all the rest. Christmat. So now is come onr joyful'st feast ; Let every man be jolly ; Each room...leaves is drest, And every post with holly. Though fame churls at our mirth repine, Round your foreheads garlands twine, Drown sorrow in a cup of wine,... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1853 - 646 pages
...unto the angel choir, From out his secret altar touch'd with hallow'd fire. — MILTON. CHRISTMAS. So now is come our joyful'st feast ; Let every man be jolly, Each room with ivy leaves is drcst, And every post with holly. Though some churls at our mirth repine, Hound your foreheads garlands... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Family recreation - 1860 - 316 pages
...roast beef." Or you may greet him in the words of an old poet — " Now, now is come our ioyful'st feast; Let every man be jolly, Each room with ivy...with holly. Though some churls at our mirth repine, Bound your foreheads garlands twine; Drown sorrow in a cup of wine, And let us all be merry ! " For... | |
 | William Wallace Fyfe - Carols - 1860 - 208 pages
...with ivy leaves is drest, And ev'ry post with holly. Though some churls at our mirth repine, Bound your foreheads garlands twine, Drown sorrow in a cup of wine, And let us all be merry. 3N"ow all our neighbours' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning ; Their ovens they with... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - Carols - 1861 - 240 pages
...by both young men and maidens — " With twenty other gambols mo, Because they would be merry."] O, now is come our joyful'st feast ; Let every man be...wine, And let us all be merry. Now all our neighbours' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning ; Their ovens they with baked meats choke, And all... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1861 - 214 pages
..." With twenty other gambols mo, Because they would be merry."] O, now is come our joyful'st feast; Though some churls at our mirth repine, Round your...wine, And let us all be merry. Now all our neighbours' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning ; Their ovens they with baked meats choke, And all... | |
 | Elizabethan age - English poetry - 1862 - 83 pages
...do, I'll back restore that one, And twenty hundred thousand more for loan. GEORGE WITHER. CHRISTMAS. So now is come our joyful'st feast; Let every man...wine, And let us all be merry. Now all our neighbours' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning ; Their ovens they with baked meat choke, And all... | |
 | Elizabethan age - 1862 - 150 pages
...do, I'll back restore that one, And twenty hundred thousand more for loan. GEORGE WITHER. CHRISTMAS. So now is come our joyful'st feast ; Let every man be jolly ; Kach room with ivy leaves is drest, And every post with holly. Though some churls at our mirth repine,... | |
 | English poems - 1863 - 364 pages
...puritanical ideas. His principal poem is "The Shepherd's Hunting," but his shorter pieces are better known.] So now is come our joyful'st feast ; Let every man...wine, And let us all be merry. Now all our neighbours' chimneys smoke. And Christmas blocks are burning : Their ovens they with baked meat choke, And all... | |
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SO now is come our joyful'st feast; Let every man be jolly, Each room with ivy leaves is drest, And every post with holly. Though some churls at our mirth repine, Round your foreheads garlands twine, Drown sorrow in a cup of wine, And let us all be merry.... 
