 | Robert Herrick - 1810 - 280 sivua
...Nay, not so much as out of bed ; When all the birds have mattins saidj 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 ! POEM LV1II. | The ceremony of gains " Maying, and the May futivitia, were once of great notoriety... | |
 | 1818 - 502 sivua
...bespangling hcrbe and tree': Emch flower has wept, and how'd toward the cast, Above an hour since ;— it is sin, Nay profanation, to keep in ; When as a thousand...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,... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1821 - 448 sivua
...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 Spriug sooner than the lark, to fetch in May ! The poets of Elizabeth's time abound with similar instances.... | |
 | 1822 - 384 sivua
...Nay, not so much as out of bed ; When all the birds have mattins 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 spring time, fresh and green, And sweet as Flora. Take no care For jewels... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1822 - 392 sivua
...Nay, not so much as out of bed ; When all the birds have mattins 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 spring time, fresh and green, And sweet as Flora. Take no care For jewels... | |
 | 1822 - 430 sivua
...much as out of bed, When all the birds have matins said, And sung their thankful hymns ; — 'ti» sin, Nay, profanation, to keep in ; When as a thousand virgins on this day Spring sooner than the lack, to fetch in . May." Alas ! the virgins in the towns and cities now rise when the sun is hastening... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1823 - 404 sivua
...Nay not so much as out of bed; When all the birds have mattins said, And sung their thankful hymns: 'tis 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 springtime fresh and green, And sweet as Flora. Take no care For jewels... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1823 - 444 sivua
...Nay not so much as out of bed ; When all the birds have mattins said, And sung their thankful hymns : 'tis 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... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1823 - 330 sivua
...since, yet you not drest, Nay ! not so much as out of bed ; When all the birds have mattens seyd, Ai.d sung their thankfull hymnes; 'tis sin, Nay, profanation...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... | |
 | 1823 - 442 sivua
...so much as out of bed, When all the birds have matins said, And sung thtir thankful hymns j — 'six sin, Nay, profanation, to keep in ; When as a thousand virgins on this u;\j Spring sooner than the lark, to fetch I» May.» Alas ! the virgins in the towns and1 cities now... | |
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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. 
