 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pagina’s
...rare excellence, that it was, for a long time, ascribed to Shakspeare. ADDRESS TO THE NIGHTINGALE. As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May,...in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made ; Beasts did leap and birds did sing, Trees did grow, and plants did spring ; Every thing did banish... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 458 pagina’s
...every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love. 1 XIX. As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove 2 of myrtles made, Beasts did leap, and birds did sing, Trees did grow, and plants did spring: Every... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 446 pagina’s
...every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.1 XIX. As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove2 of myrtles made, Beasts did leap, and birds dicT sing, Trees did grow, and plants did spring:... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 624 pagina’s
...in which it appears in ' The Passionate Pilgrim.' There are several variations in other copies. XIX. As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May,...pleasant shade Which a grove • of myrtles made, Beasts did leap, and birds did sing, Trees did grow, and plants did spring : Everything did banish... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1853 - 646 pagina’s
...Music has given the early stanzas a wide celebrity, which the moral of the later ones equally deserve. As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting...in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made ; Beasts did leap and birds did sing, 'Frees did grow, and plants did spring ; Every thing did banish... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 484 pagina’s
...every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me moYn, To live with thee and be thy love. XXI.1 As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting...in a pleasant shade, Which a grove of myrtles made, Beasts did leap and birds did sing, Trees did grow and plants did spring ; Every thing did banish moan,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 pagina’s
...thorny brambles and embracing bushes, As fearful of him, part ; through whom he rushes. 103. Birds. As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May,...in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made, Beasts did leap, and birds did sing, Trees did grow, and plants did spring ; Every thing did banish... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pagina’s
...No »tab the soul can kill. [Addnuu to tlie Niglttiagak.'} As it fell upon a day, In the merry mouth of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made ; Beasts did leap, and birds did sing. Trees did grow, and plants did spnug ; Everything did banish... | |
 | 1855 - 856 pagina’s
...which Rossini, the minstrel of the south, was wont to love so well — who that has felt sympathy with 'As it fell, upon a day, In the merry month of May,' admired that masterpiece of glee and chorus, ' The chough and crow, or been moved to jollity at some... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 378 pagina’s
...published works may be found in Mr. Southey's " Later English Poets;" they all three existed in the latter part of the seventeenth century. The beautiful...myrtles made." It may be seen in the collected poems of Eichard Barnfield, 1598. The same idea we find repeated by different writers, touching the hopelessness... | |
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Every thing did banish moan, Save the nightingale alone. She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Lean'd her breast up-till a thorn, And there sung the dolefull'st ditty, That to hear it was great pity. "Fie, fie, fie! 
