 To come forth, like the spring-time, fresh and green, And sweet as Flora. Take no care For jewels for your gown or hair: Fear not; the leaves will strew Gems in abundance upon you: Besides, the childhood of the day has kept, Against you come, some orient...  Country life [poems]. - Pàgina 30per Country life - 1873 - 147 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pàgines
...have mattens said, And sung their thaakfull hymnes; 'tis sin, Nay, profanation, to keep in; When as a thousand virgins on this day, Spring sooner than...fetch in May! Rise, and put on your foliage, and be seenc To come forth like the spring time, fresh and greene, And sweet as Flora. Take no care For jewels... | |
 | François Guizot - 1852 - 438 pàgines
...birds have matins said. And sung their thankful hymns : 'tis sin, Nay, profanation, to keep in, When as a thousand virgins on this day, Spring sooner than the lark to fetch in May. Come, my Corinna, come ; and, coming, mark How each field turns a street, each street a park Made green,... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - 1852 - 376 pàgines
...have matins said, And sung their thankful hymns : 'tis sin, Nay, profanation, to keep in, When, as a thousand virgins on this day, Spring sooner than the lark to fetch in May. Come, my Corinna, come ; and, coming, mark How each field turns a street, each street a park Made green,... | |
 | 1852 - 436 pàgines
...matint laid, And sung their thankful hymn ! it U a sin, Nay, profanation, to keep in ; When full n thousand virgins on this day Spring sooner than the lark to fetch in May ! " Hearken, sweet ladies ; hearken ! and let our voice, mingled with that of this amiable poet, win... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pàgines
...have matins said, And sung their thankful hymns : "t is sin, Nay, profanation to keep in ; When as a thousand virgins on this day Spring sooner than...care For jewels for your gown, or hair : Fear not, the leaves will strew Gems in abundance upon you : Besides, the childhood of the day has kept, Against... | |
 | 1854 - 362 pàgines
...tree. Each flower has wept, and bowed toward the east, Above an hour since, yet you are not drest, Nay, not so much as out of bed ; When all the birds...care For jewels for your gown or hair ; Fear not, the leaves will strew Gems in abundance upon you ; Besides, the childhood of the day has kept, Against... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pàgines
...Nay, profanation, to keep in, When as a thousand virgins on this day, Spring sooner than the lai'k to fetch in May. Rise, and put on your foliage, and be seen To come forth, like the spring time, fresh and green, And sweet as Flora. Take no care For jewels for your gown or hair ; Fear... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1854 - 342 pàgines
...have matins said, And sung their thankful hymns; — 'tis sin, Nay, profanation, to keep in ; When as a thousand virgins on this day Spring sooner than the lark to fetch in May." It was in that happy season that I rubbed up, for the first time, some of the antiquarianism of Mayday.... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 592 pàgines
...have matins said, And sring their thankful hymns ; 'tis sin, Nay, profanation to keep in ; When as a thousand virgins on this day, Spring sooner than the lark to fetch in May. HEUEICK. A WOODNOTE. Come ye, come ye, to the green, green wood ; Loudly the blackbird is singing,... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 584 pàgines
...birds have matins said, And sung then' thankful hymns ; 'tis sin, Nay, profanation to keep in ; When as a thousand virgins on this day, Spring sooner than the lark to fetch in Hay. HEBRICK. A WOODNOTE. Come ye, come ye, to the green, green wood ; Loudly tho blackbird is singing.... | |
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