 | 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...cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail ! bounteous May ! " This was in the holy verse of Milton ; take other passages, of a still sweeter character, in prose,... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England) - 1841 - 478 pages
...tendencies — " Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and brings with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail ! beauteous May, that doth inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Meads and groves are of thy... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1841 - 378 pages
...changed it in the lines that follow these, which are altogether in the taste of our author : Itail bounteous May ! that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire: Woods and (rroveu arc of thy dressing ; Hill and dale doth boast Then a long line comes too seriously in —... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - London (England) - 1842 - 322 pages
...THAMES. Ts'ofr the bright morning star, day's harbinger. Comes dancing from the cast, and leads with ber The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Bail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth and youth and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy... | |
 | American poetry - 1923 - 748 pages
...the bright morning Star, Dayes harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The Flowry May, who from her green lap throws The yellow Cowslip...bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth and youth and young desire, Woods and Groves, are of thy dressing, Hill and Dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we... | |
 | George Moore - Poetry - 1973 - 194 pages
...resounding grace to all heaven's harmonies. John Milton ON MAY MORNING NOW the bright morning-Star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the eaSt, and...cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May I that doSt inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...simpler to be played on his native reed, and this may refer to the cheerful fragment "On May Morning": Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes...lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Or perhaps the reference is to "L'Allegro" and "II Penseroso," which are now thought to have been written... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 226 pages
...mixt power employ (SolMus 3) Wisely hast shun'd THE BROAD | WAY AND the green (Sonn 9. 2) The Flowry May, who from her green lap throws The yellow Cowslip, and THE PALE | PRIMROSE. (May 3-4) Prosodists of later centuries were to criticize Milton for writing thus; but indeed he had... | |
 | Robert Manson Myers - Georgia - 1991 - 262 pages
...see you do not like the month of May, CARRIE: Alas, I do not like the month of May. JOSEPH (readingl: Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes...pale primrose. Hail bounteous May that dost inspire Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...Star, Daves harbinger, Comes dancing from the EasJ, ana leads with her The Flowry May, who from l>er green lap throws The yellow Cowslip, and the pale Primrose. Hail bounteous May that aoft injjpire Mirth and youth, and warm desire, Woods and Groves, are of thy dressing, Hill and Dale,... | |
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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. 
