 | Percival Chubb - Festivals - 1912 - 498 pages
...adorn the Christmas programme, such, for example, as the first stanza of Herrick's delightful poem : So now is come our joyful'st feast, Let every man be jolly. Each room with ivy leaves is dressed, And every post with holly. Other excerpts were made from verses by Christina Rossetti : The... | |
 | 1912 - 662 pages
...morning to each and every one! The rose has kissed the dawning, the gold is in the sun. ANONYMOUS. OUND your foreheads garlands twine. Drown Sorrow in a cup of wine, And let ui all be merry. GEORGE WITHER. EN are all happier for having been happy, so if you make them happy... | |
 | M. E. S. Wright - Weather - 1913 - 152 pages
...Easter in snow, Christmas in mud ; Christmas in snow, Easter in mud. Germany. So now is come our joyful feast ; Let every man be jolly ; Each room with ivy...sorrow in a cup of wine, And let us all be merry. CAROL OF QUEEN ANNE'S TIME, 1695. Thrice welcome Christmas, Which makes us good cheer, Mince pies and... | |
 | 1913 - 906 pages
...George Wither's famous lines, first printed some six years after Shakee's death, but likely sung before: So now is come our joyfulst feast, Let every man be...with ivy leaves is drest And every post with holly. ****** Without the door let sorrow lye ; And if for cold it hap to die, We'll bury it in a Christmas... | |
 | Mary Caroline Crawford - Historic buildings - 1914 - 612 pages
...celebrate Christmas. George Wither went to prison for his Puritanism; yet it was Wither who wrote : " So now is come our joyful'st feast, Let every man...cup of wine, And let us all be merry. " Now all our neighbors' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning; Their ovens they with baked-meats choke,... | |
 | Carols - 1914 - 104 pages
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 | Edith Rickert - Carols - 1914 - 378 pages
...Let every man be jolly. Each room with ivy leaves is dressed, And every post with holly. 1 Juvenilia, 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... | |
 | Mary Caroline Crawford - Historic buildings - 1914 - 606 pages
...celebrate Christmas. George Wither went to prison for his Puritanism; yet it was Wither who wrote : " So now is come our joyful'st feast, Let every man be jolly; Each room with ivy leaves is drest, v. And every post with holly. Though some churls at our mirth repine, Round your foreheads garlands... | |
 | Edith Rickert - Carols - 1914 - 372 pages
...cheer ; Now have good day ! A Christmas Carol1 1623. George Wither. So, now is come our joyfullest feast ; Let every man be jolly. Each room with ivy leaves is dressed, And every post with holly. i Juvenilia. Though some churls at our mirth repine, Round your... | |
 | 1892 - 508 pages
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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.... 
