 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pagina’s
...not so much as out of bed ; When all the birds have matins said, And sung their thankful hymns : 4is sin, Nay, profanation, to keep in, When as a thousand...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... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 592 pagina’s
...Nay, not so much as out of bed, When all the birds have matins said, And sring their thankful hymns ; 'tis sin, Nay, profanation to keep in ; When as a...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,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1854 - 342 pagina’s
...not so much as out of bed, When all the birds have matins said, And sung their thankful hymns; — 'tis sin, Nay, profanation, to keep in ; When as a...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 - 584 pagina’s
...Nay, not so much as out of bed, When all the birds have matins said, And sung then' thankful hymns ; 'tis sin, Nay, profanation to keep in ; When as a...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.... | |
 | 1854 - 362 pagina’s
...birds have matins said, And sung their thankful hymns, 'tis sin, Nay, profanation, to keep in, Whereas a thousand virgins on this day, Spring sooner than...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... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pagina’s
...Nay, not so much as out of bed ; When all the 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 lai'k to fetch in May. Rise, and put on your foliage, and be seen To come forth, like the spring time,... | |
 | François Guizot - 1855 - 368 pagina’s
...Nay, not so much as out of bed ; When all the birds have matins said, And sung their thankful hymns : 'tis sin, Nay, profanation, to keep in, When, as a...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,... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pagina’s
...have mattens said, And sung their thankfull hymnes; 'tis sin, Nay, profanation, to keep in ; Whenas a thousand virgins, on this day, Spring sooner than...seene To come forth like the spring-time, fresh and greene, And sweet as Flora. Take no cafe For jewels for your gowne, or haire : Feare not, the leaves... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1856 - 380 pagina’s
...! not so much as out of bed ? When all the birds have mattens seyd, And sung their thankful 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... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 pagina’s
...! not so much as out of bed ; When all the birds have matins said, And sung their thankful hymns ; 'tis sin, Nay, profanation, to keep in, When as a...fetch in May. Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen To come forth like the sprmg time, fresh and green, And sweet as Flora. Take no care For jewels... | |
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Nay! not so much as out of bed; When all the 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. 
