 | Robert Herrick - 1810 - 278 ページ
...train of the nobility. 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 not, the leaves will strew Gems in abundance upon you: Besides, the childhood of the day has kept, Against... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1810 - 280 ページ
...have mattins saidj 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 ! POEM LV1II. | The ceremony of gains " Maying, and the May futivitia, were once of great notoriety... | |
 | 1818 - 502 ページ
...and how'd toward the cast, Above an hour since ;— it is sin, Nay profanation, to keep in ; When as a thousand virgins on this day, Spring sooner than the lark, to fetch in May ! Come, myCorinna,come; and comming markc How each field turns a street, each street a parke Made green,... | |
 | 1822 - 384 ページ
...have mattins said, And sung their thankful hymns; 'tis sin, Nay, profanation, to keep in ; When as a thousand virgins on this day, Spring sooner than...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 :... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1822 - 392 ページ
...have mattins said, And sung their thankful hymns; 'tis sin, Nay, profanation, to keep in ; When as a thousand virgins on this day, Spring sooner than...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 :... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1823 - 404 ページ
...birds have mattins said, And sung their thankful hymns: 'tis sin, Nay profanation to keep in; When as a thousand virgins on this day, Spring sooner than...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... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1823 - 444 ページ
...birds have mattins said, And sung their thankful hymns : 'tis sin, Nay profanation to keep in ; When as a thousand virgins on this day, Spring sooner than...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... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1823 - 330 ページ
...hymnes; 'tis sin, Nay, profanation to keep in, When as a thousand virgins on this day Spring, sooner then the lark, to fetch in May. Rise, and put on your foliage, and be seene To come forth, like the spring-time, fresh and greene, And sweet as Flora. Take no care For jewels... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1824 - 380 ページ
...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 ! The poets of Elizabeth's time abound with similar instances. The door-keeper in Shakspeare's Henry... | |
 | William Hone - 1825 - 842 ページ
...; 'tis sin, Nay, profanation to keep in, When as a thousand rirgins on this day, Spring sooner then ah Battle," the whistplayer. " A clear fire, a clean hearth, and scene To come forth, like the spring-time, fresh and greens, And sweet as Flora. Take no care For jewels... | |
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To come forth, like the spring-time, fresh and green, And, sweet as Flora... 
